Michael Rotondo was ordered by a judge this week to vacate his parents' home, but he says he needs more time.

Rotondo, 30, told Business Insider that he was prioritizing parenthood over his career.

Rotondo, who lost visitation rights to his child, says only that he has performed "unskilled labor." The Daily Mail reported that he filed a discrimination lawsuit against Best Buy last year over his firing.

On Tuesday, a judge ordered a 30-year-old man to leave his parents' home, where he has been living for the past eight years.

The man, Michael Rotondo, argued in court that he needed more time to move out so he could get settled financially.

Rotondo told Business Insider that he became a father shortly after he moved in with his parents and that parenthood was at least partly why he still lived with them. He said that having a career was secondary to being a father.

"I've been a father for the past few years," Rotondo said. "That's what I've been doing. I really haven't been pursuing a career."

He added that he had been "working here and there, doing things, but mostly being a father."

Rotondo has never lived with his child but said he saw his child regularly.

He told Business Insider he was pursuing a career only passively because "I saw my child frequently enough where I became a significant component of my child's life."

Rotondo said, however, that he recently lost his visitation rights and that as a result, his parents "have been trying to coerce me away" and had stopped feeding him. He said a notice to vacate was "a retaliatory action" for losing his visitation rights.

"I was an excellent father," Rotondo told Business Insider, adding that he would take his child fishing and had foregone buying clothes for himself so he could take his child skiing. "I was a great father, and [the child] needed me in their life.

"That's why I'm not the CEO of a big company," Rotondo said about his responsibility as a parent. "That's why I'm living with my parents still."

Syracuse.com reported that after the ruling, Rotondo mentioned a business he had to support himself but refused to go into detail, saying "my business is my business."

He also refused to discuss his work history with Business Insider besides saying he had done "unskilled labor" in the past, but not "physical labor." He said he did not have a college degree.

The Daily Mail reported that Rotondo filed a discrimination lawsuit against Best Buy last year, arguing that he was fired for being unable to work on Sundays because of his court visitation schedule.

Rotondo's parents sent their son several letters asking him to move out before meeting in court. In a letter dated February 18, Rotondo's parents offered him $1,100 in cash to help him find a place to stay.

The letter also came with some advice: "There are jobs available even for those with a poor work history like you. Get one."