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2:17 pm - 06/09/2012

'Happy Days' Actress Erin Moran Is Living In A Trailer Park After Being Evicted From Her Home



Actress Erin Moran has hit some not so "Happy Days."

Moran, who played Joanie Cunningham on the hit '70s sitcom and most recently appeared on "Celebrity Fit Club" in 2008, is now living in a trailer park in New Salisbury, Indiana after being evicted from her California home.

The 51-year-old actress is sharing her new digs with husband Steve Fleischmann, a former furniture mover who is now working at a local Walmart ... and his mother.

Moran, who got her start on "Happy Days," went on to star in her own spin-off "Joanie Loves Chachi" in the '80s followed by walk-on roles on "The Love Boat" and "Murder, She Wrote."

Today, Moran is reportedly taking care of her ailing mother-in-law and flashing New Salisbury locals while having a little too much fun in a local bar.

"Life hasn’t been kind to Erin since the foreclosure of her home," a family friend told The Enquirer. "She and Steve moved in with his ailing mother at the trailer park a few weeks back. Erin is like an angel to her mother-in-law. She cooks and cleans for her and takes care of her personal hygiene. But to look at Erin today you'd never know she was once one of TV's biggest stars. Her peaches-and-cream complexion is a maze of wrinkles and crow’s feet. She’s aged terribly."

But the nearly broke, former star could be seeing a paycheck soon.

A judge recently ruled that Moran and a few of her "Happy Days" co-stars will be permitted to go to court in attempts to regain royalties for sales of "Happy Days" DVD sets.

The group's unpaid royalties are worth roughly $250,000 to $500,000.

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foryoursake08 9th-Jun-2012 08:04 pm (UTC)
nope, I applied to McDonalds and they told me I was too qualified to be a cashier but I wasn't qualified enough to be a manager.

Target wouldn't hire me either because I had a degree.

it's tough as fuck to get a job.
clothingaddict 9th-Jun-2012 08:08 pm (UTC)
christ on a bicycle, that's ridiculous! May I ask what your degree was in? And have you ever considered leaving your degree off your resume, I've heard some people do that to avoid seeming overqualified
foryoursake08 9th-Jun-2012 08:12 pm (UTC)
political science with a minor in history. I did go back to school to get my teaching license, but I owe the school money so I can't get back in and now I don't want to teach. I managed to find a temp job scoring state assessment tests, but we're on our probable last project for the year and it'll be over next friday, so I'm trying to find something for the summer. plus I really need to pay the school back so I can move on with my life.

I've been told by some to leave off my degree, but I don't feel comfortable with lying on my resume. idk, I just keeping hoping I'll find something.
clothingaddict 9th-Jun-2012 08:41 pm (UTC)
I'm minoring in political science right now :X oh dear. Any advice for someone still in school (anything you would have done differently?)

And good luck, I really hope you find something soon too!
foryoursake08 9th-Jun-2012 08:46 pm (UTC)
well for starters, stay as far away from student loans as you can or keep it to a minimum. imo, it's better to take the time paying for it yourself than to have to deal with loan companies for the next 30 years.

it all depends on what you want to get involved with. if you want to be a professional (author, expert, etc), if you want to get into politics, if you want to teach, etc. Get involved as soon as you can, especially if you want to get involved in politics. If you want to get a masters, keep up your grades. I've heard Poli sci is the hardest to get into for the masters programs.

Good luck! Poli sci is such an expansive field, you have so many choices.

and thanks! I've got a temp job now, so it's not so bad. I just need more permanent work.
luvlorn 9th-Jun-2012 11:51 pm (UTC)
I used to score state tests and sadly I think it was one of my favorite jobs. $10/hr for reading and clicking a button. Too bad they are so temporary!
nicholasdee 9th-Jun-2012 08:27 pm (UTC)
meh

of course working at a fast food or walmart type place where you don't need a hs diploma will be hard for you

look for office work that doesn't require a degree, but requires hs + work experience. Its really not hard to find a job at places like that. Especially because they will accept a degree in lieu of work experience.

I think i was unemployed less than a month tbh. I am underemployed for sure, but I don't necessarily buy the whole "impossible to find a job at walmart" thing
foryoursake08 9th-Jun-2012 08:41 pm (UTC)
lol what? I'd like to know where you're looking for jobs. Practically every one I've seen requires a degree + experience. The entry level jobs are full of "must have 2-3 years experience".

I run into the problem that I don't have much work experience. I've only spent 1 year working as a student secretary, 1 year as a news editor for the school paper, and now a few months work as a reader of state tests.

I don't have the work experience that the jobs want. That is my real problem, not my degree.
heulog 9th-Jun-2012 09:38 pm (UTC)
Ignore this little shit. I know exactly what you're dealing with and I did apply to the jobs they described and it was just as fucking hard because many more experienced people who'd been laid off previously were also applying to them, making it that much harder to secure anything. Even when a position requires experience/education, and even when one DOESN'T, the competition is fierce and sometimes you just don't stand out amongst it all. People like this fucking commenter don't realise that you end up having to apply to Walmart and McDonalds and jobs which, yes you're clearly overqualified for, because you've become desperate for ANY KIND OF JOB.
heulog 9th-Jun-2012 09:40 pm (UTC)
Don't belittle her with such a glib comment. You know damn fucking well that it is different for every person. I'm very happy it worked out for you, but not everyone can experience that kind of luck (and yes, it is luck -- even when people have done exactly what it is you're instructing them to and beyond that).

I'm sorry to be catty, but your comment just came off as hugely insensitive, even though I don't think you meant to be.
lisaw62785 10th-Jun-2012 10:25 am (UTC)
I would like to know what kind of degree/work experience you have. Office jobs do not hire people with any degree in lieu of work experience. I have a Bachelor's degree in English but no office experience so no office jobs would hire me. I went to countless staffing agencies and none of them would help me because I had no office experience. I then went to a Technical College for the Administrative Professional program since an internship was required to graduate. A couple days ago I got a call from a staffing agency saying they liked that I had the two year Administrative Professional degree. Did she say anything about the Bachelor's degree? Nope. If you don't want to be a teacher, doctor, or lawyer then there is seriously no reason to go to a 4-year college. It will only prevent you from getting jobs.

By the way, retail jobs aren't that easy to get either. I applied at a bunch of retail jobs when I was in college but none of them hired me. My main problem was applying mostly during the summer when everyone else is looking for a job, too. I graduated from college with some volunteer experience and nothing else. That's not enough to find an office job or any job for that matter in this poor job market.
killmyunicorn 9th-Jun-2012 08:34 pm (UTC)
a lot of people say you should leave off your degree(s) when applying to those places these days
la_geni 10th-Jun-2012 06:07 am (UTC)
Don't put the degree in there.
lisaw62785 10th-Jun-2012 10:31 am (UTC)
Then you have 4+ years on your resume where you were unemployed. How do you explain that during an interview?
la_geni 11th-Jun-2012 06:40 am (UTC)
If you are applying to McDonald's or a retail job is one thing, applying to an office job is another. If you are over-educated with no job experience, you're not going to get hired. One of the employers I talked to was was PG&E at a business seminar at my university. She was like, "Do you have work experience?" I was like, "Well not really, just retail," and she was like, "Even retail experience you can twist and adapt to whatever position you're applying to because something is something."

So if you have to lie, say you're still in school, then do it. Everyone else is. Sadly enough...
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