Who’s the Boss? Star Danny Pintauro Defends Amazon Delivery Job

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Danny Pintauro is the boss of his career.

And while it may seem unconventional to some, the 50-year-old—who starred as a child in the sitcom Who’s The Boss? throughout the ‘80s and early ‘90s—wants to normalize the transition from Hollywood to the regular workforce. After he went viral for posting a photo of himself delivering packages for Amazon in April, Pintauro has been vocal about how many working actors have to find other jobs to sustain themselves.

“It's one of the five different gig jobs that I'm doing right now,” Pintauro explained on the June 22 episode of Pod Meets World. “We’re gig actors. Acting is the gig. It's one of the six gigs.”

Emphasizing that actors have to make a living just like the average person, he revealed that he juggles multiple jobs in part because he doesn’t make money from residual checks.

“We have to do what we have to do to survive,” he continued. “We have got to keep moving as humans. And I know you can all relate to what that looks like. We're all doing it. I am not different from you in that sense.”

But while the public was initially confused by his job at Amazon, Pintauro noted the “flack just disappeared” once he broke down the financial insecurity that entertainers often face.

Still, the Who’s the Boss? alum admitted that people haven’t always been so compassionate in the past. In fact, he recalled that fans had made fun of him for taking on a summer job at The Gap “just for fun” toward the end of his run on the sitcom.

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“For a long time, it was they love to see the downfall,” he said. “There is something about that. Just humans love to see other people being miserable… and especially someone that they have placed on such a pedestal to see that person come down a bunch of levels.”

As for the other ways Pintauro keeps the lights on, he detailed his other side hustles in addition to delivering packages.

“I've got Amazon and then I'm an acting coach,” he shared. “So that developed because I've been teaching acting for the last almost 10 years. In Austin, I was teaching eight classes at this conservatory.”

And Pintauro isn’t the only actor to have made the transition to a non-Hollywood job. Read on for more...

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