Has anyone worked as a bouncer ?

[Ste7en]

The job is seen by many people with different perspectives, I have spent 20 years on the door, some of it was bad but largely it has been fantastic, i have taken my experience of Working The Doors and trained hard to become a Trainer for a Security Company delivering sia door supervisor Courses.

People have many different experiences of the Door Supervisor Sector and some even may be put off bye the war stories. Dont be one of them, I would honestly say that you you will never know if you like it or not unless you work as a Door Supervisor for a little while, most people get bitten bye the bug and take to the job.

Good Luck

[edh]

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Originally Posted by Jay Bee 1 of my friends is a bouncer and keeps telling me to phone them up and work for them, the thing is im about 5'7 when all the other bouncer's i see are atleast 5'10. Do you have to be build like a huge tank to be a bouncer ? oh i know about the card you have to get aswell. leroy r u doin

work as a bouncer is not all about how big you are , sometimes the shortest are the ones to watch out for , aggression is a last resort.

[FACSGC]

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Originally Posted by matt_turton Dont get me wrong the job has its plus points, the good people you meet

usually the 18 yr old blond and 19 yr brunette i had hanging around my neck the other week - i love my job - just wishing for more hours

[skip]

Hello Jay bee
The primitive world of violence has so many reflections to the rest of the animal kingdom, I've worked with a few blokes your size and a hell of a lot of women your size. My best advice is don't try and make up for you not being a lofty by over killing your attitude and aggression, nobs will just think you've got small mans syndrome and make you a target for piss take. You need to be like the lion mate, proud and confident, not splaying your arms out and being over agro to solve things.

The guys I've worked with often had more problems if they looked a bit poncy too, so try and look and feel the part. I'm not talking about waltzing about like you own the place, walk about like you don't give F*+K who owns the place but be nice and polite. People will always read you from your body language and your eyes a lot of the time. The only way many of these drunks and druggies will give you any respect is if they think you might be something that could test them BUT having said that many of them won't give two tosses how big you are, giving a doorman a dig earns them a great deal of kudos in their sad lives.

Second bit of advice, get yourself down borders and do a bit of research, i used to read a lot of Geoff thompson books years ago and although the job has changed a fair bit at least you would be going into it with your eyes a little more open. Someone mentioned about seeing if you would need to wear PPE like shin pads, my advice is, wear it all, especially a groin guard, shin pads and decent boots to stop you from twisting your ankle. Just take care of yourself, theres never any harm in asking for advice in a world where sometimes it can be the hardest thing to bring yourself to do.

[!dragon!]

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Originally Posted by Jay Bee 1 of my friends is a bouncer and keeps telling me to phone them up and work for them, the thing is im about 5'7 when all the other bouncer's i see are atleast 5'10. Do you have to be build like a huge tank to be a bouncer ? oh i know about the card you have to get aswell. leroy r u doin

no you dont mate some of the lads who worked for me on the doors are half pints but some of the best you'll come accross its confidance and compitance. so dont worry

[!dragon!]

jst to add mate Robin Barrat books good ones too

[80085]

Hiya, I totally agree with Littlewomen, its not always size and braun that matters. It depends on your mindset I guess, also your body language. I have been working doors for a long time. I have seen massive changes particularly with the drug use. If you can talk them down its a good thing but more often and not they are off their face and anything you say wont stop it from kicking off. It always helps if you work with a good team. If one of you needs backup then they shouldnt be too far out of eyesight to give you a helping hand. When it does kick off its usually big time!

[james1]

hi.,
i ve got a bit of experience on the doors, all over the world actually. i started alittle group in nyc and we ve got a few doors now. The problem we have, my pals cousin for example, can really handle himself, but he is small. People want to test him all the time, because of his size. Now we ve got huge guys who are soft a tissue paper, but you dont test them, because if they can rumble, it going to hurt!
Sad fact!

[lincsdoorman]

As the others have said you dont need to be massive, you just need a level headed approach,confidence and a no nonsense attitude. I work on eye contact a lot and this tends to calm people down, also its suprising what you can do with a smile.

[wullie reilly]

being a bouncer is a good laugh as one guy said if you work with the right team its good if you work with a shi. team thats when it all goes to rat shi. go for your sia licence and you dont have to be tall i am 5,4 and work in cambridge when bac from iraq being doing it for years

wullie Psd iraq