HR retires at age 45 with ₹1 crore, reduces expenses from ₹1.5 lakh to ₹50,000 in Dehradun

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 ₹1 crore corpus, shifted from Pune to Dehradun, and reduced his monthly expenses from as high as ₹1.5 lakh to roughly ₹50,000.Amit Chilka opens up about quitting the corporate world at the age of 45 and reducing living expenses.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 years in HR leadership… Alongside the corporate career, I ran Synerg, my HR consulting practice, for seven years,” he revealed.(Also read:




