Bolaris currently works as the President of BlackLabel Luxury Real Estate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After a week at News 12 Long Island, Bolaris was named the weekend television meteorologist for WCBS.

[4] While at WCBS, Bolaris served as a forecaster on the weather for the New York Yankees and their owner, George Steinbrenner.

[5] Bolaris served as a reporter on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather during Hurricane Hugo.

[8] Bolaris urged viewers to stay home from work and Philadelphia area schools were closed.

In December 2011, Bolaris was suspended after he took part in a profile in Playboy magazine, which presented him in a negative light and he was fired a month later.

[15] In 2016, John Bolaris retired from meteorology and co-founded BlackLabel Luxury Real Estate.

He served as the listing agent for an estate on Long Island where F. Scott Fitzgerald reportedly wrote The Great Gatsby.