Becoming a bar bouncer?

[johngenx]

I'm 6' and 155lbs and fit. But, I'm a skinny guy and look like a stick next to the massive bodybuilder types I see at my local gym. I can't help but overhear these guys chatting, and most of the really big dudes work as bouncers at bars.

As we walk to the parking lot, these guys are in new top-line Mercedes, 'Slades, and stuff like that. One dude is driving a late model Bentley! A Bentley?

Damn, I don't want a Bentley, or any of those other cars/trucks, but I'd like to be able to afford one. Should I begin juicing and bulking and become a bouncer? Sounds like it's one of the most lucrative professions around!!

[iceman]

Excellent plan, you're going to be rich!

[ass-to-mouth]

PM Gameface.

[ICEHOCEY77]

get ya some of that deer antler spray

[grskier]

How much for a 15% stake?

hmmph, now I'm hungry for 15% of a steak.

[irul&ublo]

[skifishbum]

Go barback or tender learn a decent skill although being able to kick the shit out of unruley drunks and not end up in the pokey is good.
My tip he with the galliano bottle can inflict the most damage.

[Parvo]

It's not all about having an intimidating physique. It's about pain compliance holds. Ever been escorted out of a bar with the ol the thumb in your armpit maneuver? So painful you practically hallucinate.

[huckbucket]

It's not all about having an intimidating physique. It's about pain compliance holds. Ever been escorted out of a bar with the ol the thumb in your armpit maneuver? So painful you practically hallucinate.

How are you able to post from jail?

[BigLeagueBrian]

Do you really think that guy pays for a Bentley working as a Bouncer?

And a benz is a dime a dozen now anyway, who gives a shit about those.

[Garth Bimble]

Dalton had a Mercedes too...I never realized bar bouncing was so lucrative.

[Moeghoul]

Go barback or tender learn a decent skill although being able to kick the shit out of unruley drunks and not end up in the pokey is good.
My tip he with the galliano bottle can inflict the most damage.

Ahhhh, the Galiano bottle, so versatile, inflicts pain and pleasure.

[Moeghoul]

The fancy wheels belong to their bosses who they chauffeur or possibly their stripper girlfriends.

[PNWbrit]

Send your resume to Advres. I hear he's hiring soon. He'll probably let you drive his Bentley, when he gets one.

[advres]

Where are you located? Most bouncers don't get paid a lot. At a trendy club in Vegas though, bouncers can get away with a lot charging people under the table to get in who normally wouldn't get in. Being fleeced for several hundo is not uncommon at certain clubs. A corrupt bouncer in certain clubs in Vegas can make a G or more a night before their pay. I know a few guys in Vegas who do exactly that and they make easily over $100K a year usually working 4 days a week. Most other cities it is a shit wage (think maybe $12/hr) and no way of skimming.

And no, you don't need to be big to be a bouncer. Most bouncers deal with numbers, not one-on-one. Intimidation goes a long way. Oh, and always be nice until it's time to not be nice.

[AdironRider]

Odds are they are going to laugh in your face. 155 pounds? Even if Im hammered you're going to have a tough time controlling my 200 lb frame. Theres a reason those dudes are huge. Its to throw the 155 pound shitheads out on the curb without really exerting any effort.

[skifishbum]

^^^thats why they make tazers your 200lb frame will be floppin on the floor hopin a doc martin doesnt end up costing you a visit to a maggot dental practitioner

[AdironRider]

Tazers? Shit, here in Wyoming they don't need no stinkin tazers. They deal with you the ol fashioned way.

[dan_pdx]

IDK, I've always thought that bouncers are 80% intimidation. Most of the ones I see here (Portland) are big guys running to fat. They're big enough to discourage casual fuckoffs just with their looks, and they deal with the occasional more determined fuckoffs by ganging up on them. Don't see any way you'd get hired as a skinny guy, even if you were the 2nd coming of Bruce Lee, because you'd actually need to throw down too often. It's all about keeping people in line with your menacing presence.

[BigLeagueBrian]

That white guy with the dreads who bounces at centerfolds is f'n huge and intimidating.

155 might work at a gay bar. are you trying to bounce at a gay bar?

[Jer]

IDK, I've always thought that bouncers are 80% intimidation. Most of the ones I see here (Portland) are big guys running to fat. They're big enough to discourage casual fuckoffs just with their looks, and they deal with the occasional more determined fuckoffs by ganging up on them. Don't see any way you'd get hired as a skinny guy, even if you were the 2nd coming of Bruce Lee, because you'd actually need to throw down too often. It's all about keeping people in line with your menacing presence.

Exactly. No bar owner actually wants a fight in their bar. Any skinny guy who can reach some boozebag's ears can make him pisshit his pants like a baby, but nobody wants it to actually come to that.

John - the muscleheads get the Bently $$ from selling riods, not bouncing.

[iceman]

I did it for a living for four years in and out of school and dan_pdx is exactly right. The place I worked could fit 1500 people and the actual fights we had could be counted on one hand. We frog-marched a lot of people out of there and kicked 'em to the curb though.

[skifishbum]

Craziest I had to deal with was working in a club over in Germany. Rarely did payday not turn into fri night at the fights. The infantry hates the engineers, the engineers hate the artilery and everyone hates the MPs. There is some unwritten code if someone in your units thowing down your obligated to join in. fuckin mayhem. One thing I learned is do not under any circemstances bother throwing a blow above the neck of anyone of Pacific Island decesent connecting will just break your hand and have little or no effect on them.

[bagtagley]

I'm skinny and cheap, so I made friends with the bouncers so I didn't have to wait in line or pay.

I've been booted several times, usually for good reason. On one occasion, my plastered roommate came up and shoved me in a sort of brotherly, "what's up" kind of way. I (lightly) shoved back, which initiated a slow motion rearward stumble across most of the bar into a table full of empty/half empty glasses, which he fell over and ended up on his head surrounded by broken glass. In the midst of my laughter, I noticed a bouncer pointing at me mouthing "get the fuck out". I put my hands up perp style, did a two hand point towards the door, and exited.

[timnormandin]

Odds are they are going to laugh in your face. 155 pounds? Even if Im hammered you're going to have a tough time controlling my 200 lb frame. Theres a reason those dudes are huge. Its to throw the 155 pound shitheads out on the curb without really exerting any effort.

Recently watched a 140 pound jiu-jitsu guy bouncing at a shithole in Lowell, Mass rear naked choke a 200+ pound guy. Dragged the fucker right out of the bar by the neck, the guy lost his pants--they were sagging--shit his boxers and lay face down in the street until the police took him away. Can never tell what you're up against until, you know, you're up against it.