India, May 13 -- An HR professional who left corporate life at 45 has opened up about the decision in a viral LinkedIn post, revealing how he "retired" with a Rs.1 crore corpus, shifted from Pune to Dehradun, and reduced his monthly expenses from as high as Rs.1.5 lakh to roughly Rs.50,000.

Amit Chilka, who spent over two decades in HR leadership roles at companies including Wipro, Cognizant and Synechron, said the move was not about escaping work altogether but redesigning his life around work he actually wanted to do.

"I retired from a corporate job and rebuilt an income from work I chose," he told Hindustantimes.com.

Born in Mumbai and raised in Nashik and Pune, Chilka, 46, studied engineering before moving into HR. "I spent 22 year...