“Who’s the Boss?” alum Danny Pintauro works five jobs to make ends meet — and says he’s not making any money off the earnings tied up in the hit sitcom that made him famous.
The former child star – who played Jonathan Bower on the ABC comedy from 1984 to 1992 – opened up about his finances months after posting a now-viral photo of himself delivering packages to Amazon.
“[Amazon is] one of the five different jobs I’m doing right now,” Pintauro, 50, told the “Pod Meets World” podcast on Monday.
“We are gig actors. Acting is a gig. It’s one of six gigs.”
The actor explained that he is among the growing number of actors who rely on multiple jobs outside of Hollywood to support themselves, saying that acting alone is not enough to pay the bills.
“We have to do what we have to do to survive,” he told hosts Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle and Rider Strong, who starred on the ’90s sitcom “Boy Meets World.”
“We have to keep going as human beings. And I know you all can feel what that looks like. We all do. I’m no different than you in that way.”
Pintauro, who starred alongside Tony Danza, Judith Light and Alyssa Milano during the eighth season of “Who’s the Boss?,” also revealed that he doesn’t depend on the paychecks left on the show.
“I don’t make money from scraps,” Pintauro said bluntly.
The actor said the public’s reaction to his work at Amazon changed after he explained the financial realities many working actors face.
“The flack just disappeared,” he said.
Still, he remembers being teased years ago for taking a summer job at the Gap toward the end of his “Who’s the Boss?”
“They’ve been wanting to see fall for a long time,” Pintauro said. “There’s something about that. People just like to see other people sad … and especially someone stuck in a situation like that to see that person go down a bunch of levels.”
Besides delivering packages, Pintauro said he works as a substitute instructor, teaches classes and workshops, and builds and sells dioramas.
“I have Amazon and I became an acting coach,” he said. “That grew because I’ve been teaching acting for about 10 years. In Austin, I was teaching eight classes at this school.”
“You want to wake up in the morning with something to do,” he added. “A lot of people were raised with a respectable work ethic, or you hope to say, ‘I want to wake up and be productive today.'”
Pintauro most recently appeared in the 2022 film “A Country Christmas Harmony” and the 2025 TV series “The Comeback Kids.”
