Before reality stardom came knocking, Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino was in quite a financial pickle: The well-chiseled personal trainer filed for unemployment benefits last October.
On the unemployment form – filed in The Sitch’s native of New York State last October 25, just a month before Jersey Shore was unleashed on an unsuspecting world — he claimed that his last job was as a waiter in Florida and noted that he became unemployed the previous July. However times have changed dramatically for Mike in the last few months — he now earns $10,000 per episode for the second season of the smash MTV series that made him one of reality TV’s most recognizable stars.
Just goes to show how drastically things can change for the better in a short period of time.
Mike is busy filming the second season of Jersey Shore in Miami.