Anyone ever gotten a job as a bouncer?

Der Eisbar said:
So I've decided to take a break from traveling for high paying labor jobs and get a place for the winter in my hometown and take it easy for a minute.

My place is walking distance from downtown Boise and 2 blocks from BSU. I'd like to find work in the area that is decent paying.

Anyway do any of you have experience working as a bouncer? How did you get that job? How did it pay? Did you enjoy it?

Given my SSJ Alpha status I think Im a pretty good candidate to be a bouncer and would like to make some extra money on weekends.
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Super Saiyan Alpha?
 
MadSquabbles500 said:
My cousin was a bouncer in NYC during the 90s when it was not all yuppies and hipster, and instead, gangbangers, druggies, and just tough guys.

He quit because he said he sick and tired of people telling him, they gonna kill him.

He apparently had to use hand to hand to defend himself quite a bit. One story he told me, when he was bouncing at an explosive and athletic crowd catering club. An up and coming rap artists was throwing a party, and his producer and people behind him invite either the bloods or crips or both to attend the party, hoping they will start beef so the rapper will look like a legit bad arse.

Naturally these ruffians start up, and my cousin has to protect the interest of the club owners, and must step inbetween, and try and break it all up.

My cousin is a cool guy and I look up to him.
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Doesn't Boise usually drop below zero at night in the winter?
 
I'm just going to add this, I'm in a pretty similar field. Being able to take care of yourself and keep yourself and the people around you safe when things go bad is great - it's also many times less important than being able to diffuse a situation before it turns bad.

If you want to get into any field in which you will be ordering a member of the general public to do or not do something they may take personal offense to, do yourself a solid and consider can you get the cooperation you need from someone who wants to fight you over it without fighting. Otherwise just stick to the cage where the pay is worth it.

Sometimes in my experience that has involved reason, logic, and forming an immediate rapport with someone about to have a really bad day. Sometimes it's involved implied or actual physical force. If you don't strongly and deeply prefer the first scenario you will find the job a bad fit.
 
In Australia you need a crowd control and security license in order to bounce.

I spent a few months getting my training done when I was 20, worked one shift at a shithole night spot and quit, then lost my license a couple of years later for being involved in a court case.

Security industry in aus is very touchy since a famous cricketer got killed by a bouncer a few years back.
 
I worked as a bouncer getting extra money while at university, now working as a doorman to supplement my income and pay for the twins.

It doesn't pay as good as it used to, used to get
 
Phlog said:
I worked as a bouncer getting extra money while at university, now working as a doorman to supplement my income and pay for the twins.

It doesn't pay as good as it used to, used to get
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What is the high paying job you are leaving to become a bouncer?
 
i have been a bouncer and i have employed bouncers. the worst are the ones who love to fight. i had this one bouncer that got into more altercations than all my other guys combined. he was there when i started and was super nice, so it took awhile to figure out that he was a big part of the problem. if you want to be a bouncer because you love to fight, you probably are headed to the wrong career.

when i was working as a bouncer it was great. i got laid damned near every night, got to see some cool stuff, and just got to be in some great places. certainly not a long term gig, but it was fun while it lasted
 
I used to bounce with Chris Tuchsherer In Fargo Moorhead. good dude who went on to get the piss beat out of him daily by Brock. we didn't take a lot of shit off of guys who were assholes at the door. I think people got lulled into a false sense of security by his smiling and laughing.
 
I heard a guy named Dalton was the best cooler in the business.
 
Did it in while I was in University. Got paid pretty well, like 20 bucks an hour cash. Easy way to be part of the party and meet girls without spending money. I got the job by knowing a bouncer at the gym. Got a bottle busted over my head once. It got old fast after finishing school. It's not worth the head aches, but then again it depends on the place.
 
Bars are notorious for high ownership turnover. What cracks me up is half the bouncers around here act like they don't want you in their bar. I'll never understand that business model. Spend all the money to get this venue up and running and then completely kill it with an asshole at the front door who acts like every single customer is a problem unless they're a chick that's an 8-10. Do you want people inside drinking and spending money or do you want them going somewhere else because they don't feel like dealing with the hassle at the front door?
 
Make sure the club owner has some sort of nightclub insurance to protect you if someone you bounced wants to try and sue for bodily injury.
 
My experience - make sure you know the management and other guys you work with are on the same page. In a good bar it's a blast. In a bad bar it's awful.
 
Dreadlock666 said:
In Australia you need a crowd control and security license in order to bounce.

I spent a few months getting my training done when I was 20, worked one shift at a shithole night spot and quit, then lost my license a couple of years later for being involved in a court case.

Security industry in aus is very touchy since a famous cricketer got killed by a bouncer a few years back.
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Wasn't that bouncer acquitted as he did it in self defense?
 
Don't do it in your home town, some **** will bring trouble to your front door.
 
Myself and a couple guys that trained at the same gym worked at a low key bar/club over a summer. It was fun even though you get tired of the same boring DJ playlists fast.

Only problems really were out of towners or when big local events were going on. Also there was the few that were troublemakers, the big bosses didn't like banning people so it took pulling a weapon to get banned but fighting your usually welcome back unless its all the time.
 
SherdogGoat said:
Wasn't that bouncer acquitted as he did it in self defense?
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I think so. Local media made a huge deal about the bouncer that hit him being a killer and basically ruined the guys life, as though knowing he'd killed someone wasn't bad enough for him.

Once he was acquitted there was little talk about it, media did their damage then left. Kind of sad.

The guy has made a bit of a turn around I believe, went on to be a decent boxer.
 
Dreadlock666 said:
I think so. Local media made a huge deal about the bouncer that hit him being a killer and basically ruined the guys life, as though knowing he'd killed someone wasn't bad enough for him.

Once he was acquitted there was little talk about it, media did their damage then left. Kind of sad.

The guy has made a bit of a turn around I believe, went on to be a decent boxer.
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Thanks for the info man. Did you think he was actually innocent and just defending himself or was he acquitted due to lack of evidence or something like that. There were likely a lot of witnesses if he was a celebrity.
 
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