India, Feb. 10 -- Jamal Robinson, a computer engineer who previously worked with Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Intel, retired in his late 30s and now lives in Dubai as an American expat.

According to CNBC Make It, Robinson began his career by working as a church janitor at the age of 14, followed by a stint at Taco Bell for minimum wage while attending school at the age of 16.

He said it was when he was 17 that he decided to retire at 45. "I didn't see a lot of people that were happy with work.In my mind, I always that it make the most sense to compress that amount in my life," Robinson explained.

However, he achieved his objectives six years earlier, at the age of 39, at a time when he was earning $1.1 million (over Rs.9.63 crore) per ye...