E Amazon employee walks away from corporate life, shares biggest lesson he learnt

Key points

• An e Amazon employee who walked away from a stable corporate career says the toughest part of leaving wasn't losing the salary, it was losing the structure, identity and sense of validation that came with the job.
• The reflection was shared by investor and coach Vijay Kedia on LinkedIn, where he recounted the day he left Amazon's Hyderabad office for the final time and began what he described as a one-way road trip to Dehradun.
• Sitting in his car after handing over his laptop, he said the journey felt different from any he had taken before because he was not just changing cities, but "leaving behind my corporate identity." In the now-viral post, he recalled feeling both excited and anxious as he stepped away from a career that had provided stability for years.
• "Excitement because I finally had the freedom to build life on my own terms....