You might relate with the following article titled:
“Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts Why I Quit a $500K Job at Amazon to Work for Myself“
“Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts Why I Quit a $500K Job at Amazon to Work for Myself“
They're all doing OK now, and all of them had done OK before that, but I think that for every person who claims no regrets, there's someone like the people I know who did it for similar reasons but have decided that it was, all in all, a dumb thing to do.
Maybe when this author is past the "Last week I left my cushy job at Amazon" (first line of the essay) phase, he or she may also conclude this was silly. People have a way of re-evaluating things.