What Gino Palazzolo From 90 Day Fiancé Really Does For A Living

Gino Palazzolo has a long-standing career aside from his "90 Day Fiancé" appearances. The reality TV personality and his partner, Jasmine Pineda, made their debut on "90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days" in Season 5 of the TLC series, Collider noted. This took place after they first connected online four years ago, per InTouch. While Pineda's home country is Panama, Palazzolo is from Michigan.

In a past InTouch article, the news site reported that Palazzolo was paying for Pineda's rent in Panama, which Palazzolo stated was "a lot of money for me right now because I'm not working." Though he wasn't employed as a result of the pandemic, Palazzolo had access to other funds. "Luckily, I have a lot of investments," Palazzolo said. "I buy and sell my own stock and my value hit like, $650,000 or something like that. But that's basically money for our retirement, so I don't want to touch any of that right now."  Palazzolo's net worth was an estimated $1.5 million at the time, the news site added. 

Leading up to his days on TLC, Palazzolo has worked a job that's contrasting to the television industry.

Gino Palazzolo of "90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days" is an engineer in the automotive industry. In 2021, Palazzolo detailed how he was not working at the time due to COVID-19, InTouch wrote. "Because of the pandemic, I got laid off from my job [as] an automotive engineer about seven months ago," Palazzolo noted. "But since I've been smart with my savings, I thankfully have been able to send money to help Jasmine [Pineda] out."

Per his LinkedIn page, Palazzolo is currently a product development engineer with Faurecia, where he has been employed since June 2021. He was previously an engineering program manager with Ford Motor Company for just over one year. The page also details that Palazzolo's career began in 1993, and since then he's held numerous roles related to product engineering for car companies. Before embarking on this path, he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Oakland University. In his LinkedIn bio, Palazzolo details that he's "seeking a challenging senior product development engineer or program manager position with great opportunity." When he's not focusing on this line of work, Palazzolo remains dedicated to appearing on reality television alongside Pineda.

Gino Palazzolo and Jasmine Pineda will return as "90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days" cast members. In May 2023, Palazzolo stated via Instagram that he and Pineda would be "back for another exciting season" of the reality show before revealing that a total of eight couples would be participating in the latest episodes. More recently, he teased the soon-to-debut season again on his social media account. "Check out the exciting new season 6 of B90 Before 90 Days starting June 4th," Palazzolo captioned an image of himself and Pineda on Instagram.

Pineda likewise took to social media to discuss the upcoming episodes of the TLC series, saying that she's "super excited for another season," and it will be "quite a journey for each and all of us." In a "90 Day Fiancé" trailer, Pineda noted how her relationship with Palazzolo is at its breaking point, saying,"This us our last chance to reignite the spark."  Palazzolo has also shared moments with fans in which he's away from work. He recently posted a photo of himself at a "beautiful park" in Michigan, per Instagram, in addition to documenting a visit to his childhood home in May 2023.