. >> for justin mccurry, that giant step was quitting his engineering job in 2013 and retiring at age 33 >> i really focused on how can i change my lifestyle for the better so that i can have more free time for me >> he's not alone. the desire to quit working decades early is the focus of a growing movement, mostly among millennials called fire, which stands for financial independence, retire early how did he do it >> saving a large percentage of my income was a big part of it # we saved about half of our incomes and that increased as we made more money. >> living and working in raleigh, north carolina, mccurry and his wife never made more than $150,000 a year combined. after ten years of saving and maxing out their 401(k)s, their investments mostly in stock inde funds, grew to $1.3 million. will that be enough for him, his wife and three kids? >> you always have those doubts. am i doing the right thing is this what i should be doing >> six years later, they live on just $40,000 a year, taken from his investments and a blog he writes on the fire movement called root of good. tonya is