Adam,
You already have an excellant reply, and some of the stuff I will say will be a repeat, Yet it requires being repeated.
Good Side. You have a job. You might meet some girls.
Bad Side.
You have a job that no one except other bouncers will respect. The police look at you like a professional Bully. Be prepared to talk to them a lot if any force is requried. Be prepared to make comments such as I would like to press charges against him and his 5 friends.
Get used to having girls come up and see you and try to get in. Remember if you are also checking ID's and they get in it is your job and you can get a $5,000 fine for letting them in. Also, if you are playing more than one girl, then they know your feet a nailed to the ground there. Expect that both will show up on the same night, and you will have to deal with that. Expect to deal with ex-girl firends and their new boyfriends. And amybe his friends.
Now if it the level of contact increases, or people are looking to make a point, knives and guns are their also. Baseball BAts, Tasers, you name it and you will see it and most likely be asked to stop it and take care of it.
Oh Yes remember that you cannot use a weapon or carry one or hurt they other guy swinging or stabbing or shooting at you. If you carry the weapon then it is premeditated that you would said weapon. And if you survive and the bad guy looks worse then you, then police will not believe the level of violence was there, and think you are just geting into fights.
The guys, who will meet you after work to talk to you for a while. To the ones who will try to follow you home to see where they can get you at their leisure. To the ones that will sneak up on you later elsewhere. The list goes on and on, and on, ..., .
You will be standing all night long or sitting on a stool by the door, yet if there are problems in the place semi regularly you will find that you want to stand.
If you hurt someone real bad you could spend the night in jail. If they hurt you then you could spend the night in the hospital.
Yes, the list is not really balanced is it?
If the place is an up scale pub that gets a bad drunk once every six months then the job could be just fine and safe and all. If it is a club where everyone ones to go and dance, and colors are allowed, ot not allowed then you could be stepping into fights between others, and then their friends cuold think you were jumping their friend.
If things go well, it is ok job. If things go bad then they are bad. It is like being a police officer and when you finally have to chase down a bad guy or you get shoot at, then you woner why this happned to you. If you are a fire man and you wonder why you have to run into a burning building. If you a re a bouncer you are the wall the sea crashes against trying to get in. You are the target, and will be in a fight. It is not a question of if, but a questions of when.
With respect, it is your choice as it was mine.
:asian:
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