[3][4] Then he briefly worked as an HMO's sales representative[1] and then became a self-employed car tuner[1] in San Angelo.
[16][17] When three players remained, Donaldson won the season's final immunity challenge, "Fallen Comrades", the quiz about eliminated contestants.
[21][d] In the Final Tribal Council, Donaldson and Wesson revealed onscreen to the jury their own core alliance that helped maintain the Ogakor tribe's strength.
[28] After The Australian Outback, Donaldson appeared alongside other Survivor players in the May 8, 2001, episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show and received from Rosie O'Donnell a Harley-Davidson motorcycle,[29] one of his answers he made in The Australian Outback Final Tribal Council.
[31] He was a representative and spokesman for a Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraising event at its West Texas branch (Permian Basin) on May 16, 2002.
[33] Donaldson moved from Dallas to Los Angeles in summer 2001 and then began taking acting lessons.
[34] He debuted his acting career in a television film Another Pretty Face, which first aired on PAX on November 8, 2002.
[44][45] He portrayed also a high school sweetheart of one of leading characters in the Good Girls Don't episode that aired on Oxygen on July 9, 2004,[46] He portrayed a cop, unbeknownst to a main character Bridget (Kaley Cuoco) who entered a club with a fake ID card and became attracted to him there, in the 8 Simple Rules episode that aired on ABC on November 12, 2004.
[51] He was one of celebrity judges for Animal Planet's Nuts for Mutts, a contest for mixed-breed dogs, that same year.
[52] Donaldson and Survivor host Jeff Probst made guest appearances on Mad TV in 2005.
[55] He hosted Speed's American Thunder in 2009 and appeared at a Make-A-Wish Foundation motorcycle-based fundraiser "Rumble to the Summit" on June 12–13, 2009.
[61] Donaldson hosted reality competition series Top Shot (2010–2013),[62][63] The Butcher (2019),[64] and Mountain Men: Ultimate Marksman (2022–),[65] all on the History network.
He was one of three celebrity judges for the fifth annual Pennzoil Victory Burnout Challenge,[66] part of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.