ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email How I retired at 36 with $3 million in California Jeremy Schneider, 41, lives in San Diego and achieved FIRE — financial independence, retire early — at 36. In 2015, he sold his company RentLinx for just over $5 million. In 2017, he retired from corporate work with about $3 million. Schneider traveled and played video games in that first year of early retirement.