This Former Banker Turned Janitor Now Makes $10 Million Annually on His Cleaning Business

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Not many bankers would leave their comfortable, high-paying position to clean toilets. But that’s exactly what John Disselkamp did.

The decision turned out to be the best of his life. Disselkamp now runs a $10 Million Janitorial company. But for the months after he left his banking job, it seemed like he was committing career suicide.

From mopping it up to mopping

At 35, Disselkamp decided that he “didn’t want to be sitting in front of a calculator” for the rest of his life, so he quit his job at a Louisville, Kentucky bank and moved in with his mom.

“I was basically

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