Would you let me bounce at your club?

[Aeternitatis]

I've been thinking about a career change.

Club Bouncer would be cool. I think I'm good for it at 5'9" and 155 lbs. I'm built like a dancer and like to read Philip K. **** in my spare time. Think I should go for it?

or...

Get into diesel engine repair.

[Alexander]

Hell yeah, people would start **** with you all the time and then I could justifiably KO them.

[protomike]

I've been thinking about a career change.

Club Bouncer would be cool. I think I'm good for it at 5'9" and 155 lbs. I'm built like a dancer and like to read Philip K. **** in my spare time. Think I should go for it?

or...

Get into diesel engine repair.

hell, i have two bouncers about your size at the bar i work at... as long as you know some mma, or how to wrestle we'll hire someone of your size.

[Aeternitatis]

Okay okay, I exaggerated. I actually weigh 160lb.

Yeah, I have MMA experience. I've seen Bas Rutten's "Lethal Self Defense" movie like 3 times. That makes me :bruce1:
I also watch Cops amlost everyday.

Seriously though, it seems to me that bouncing is all about having the size to intimidate... which is definitely out of the cards for me. Even with anabolic steroids I probably wouldn't get above 190lb just cause I do have a small frame. That's not to say I'm not strong... since size isn't coming to me I usually train for strength and power. But that lends me to increased dexterity and speed. In terms of MMA, I do have some real experience and pick up on technique very quickly. I can usually drop guys 50 lbs bigger than me without too much effort.

I'm looking for a side job that would keep me active and satisfy my T desires. I figured either be a bouncer or work on diesel engines (plus diesel mechanics make BIG money).

[protomike]

Okay okay, I exaggerated. I actually weigh 160lb.

i've been working at bars part time for the last five years as a bouncer, and im at 186lb currently. i started after i left college when i was 20, and i had put on a ton of weight while i was in school, i was probably up to 225lb at my heaviest, then dropped down... but thats besides the point, in those five years i worked at three of the hottest bars at this beach resort area i lived at. when i had my hand in hiring guy i would always try and get a few of the smaller guys who knew a little mma or wrestling. mostly because they where the ones who would work, and the big steroid guys we would hire would usually be getting drunk on their first night or hitting a drunk when they didn't need to.

Yeah, I have MMA experience. I've seen Bas Rutten's "Lethal Self Defense" movie like 3 times. That makes me :bruce1:
I also watch Cops amlost everyday.

good stuff bro!

Seriously though, it seems to me that bouncing is all about having the size to intimidate... which is definitely out of the cards for me. Even with anabolic steroids I probably wouldn't get above 190lb just cause I do have a small frame. That's not to say I'm not strong... since size isn't coming to me I usually train for strength and power. But that lends me to increased dexterity and speed. In terms of MMA, I do have some real experience and pick up on technique very quickly. I can usually drop guys 50 lbs bigger than me without too much effort.

I'm looking for a side job that would keep me active and satisfy my T desires. I figured either be a bouncer or work on diesel engines (plus diesel mechanics make BIG money).

like i said im only 186, and i've had to throw out the LT for the giants(mind you i needed another guy to help out, but the guy is 310lbs). usually a good bar/club will have you work with another guy, or atleast have you within eye contact of another guy... so that way if anything does happen you can have someone to help you out. all in all its a fun gig to do part time, and even if you have no game what so ever you can get tons of women doing it. of course you will make a metric **** ton of money doing the mechanics job.

[Mulletsoldier]

Yeah, then while you are reading in the club you can Scanner to see in the Darkly lit room...Brutal joke, I know.

[Jayhawkk]

Drum roll! Where's my mother****ing drum roll, people!?!?!?

What's sad is I laughed out loud when I typed that...I'm such an idiot, lol.

[Aeternitatis]

It's all good. I almost crapped myself when I wrote that thing about seeing Bas Rutten's movie (althoug he is pretty badass).

[aspire210]

I've tried to get a job as a bouncer. I'm a good sized guy 5'7 185lbs, not big, but you definately would know I workout. Didn't work for me at all. The idea behind a bouncer is they're big enough no one will WANT to mess with them. I have seen bouncers who were scared of me though, but they're generally **** bars I used to hang out at. They were also like 6'2 with a little beer belly and didn't look like they picked up a weight in their life. It's more about intimidation. People say I'm intimdating looking, but how can you really be so at 5'7?

I have had friends that were bouncers too. My advice is you get a job as one, don't be overly forceful unless you have to be. You might have your ass covered inside, but outside, in the parking lot is a whole other game. You aren't bullet proof and you can get jumped. I've seen crap like that before, because a guy used more force then he had to when dealing with a drunk. Drunk goes outside gets a knife/gun or calls his friends. Good luck with whatever you choose.

[Mulletsoldier]

Nobody picked up on my horribly tacky Phillip K. Di.ck joke?

[bulls**t]

I bounced for a while. While it never hurts to have training, its not very often you will get into an actual fight. Big guys are preffered for intimidation, to act as a human wall, and to literally drag out drunks.
When I bounced, I was 6' 210 with a solid background in Thai Boxing and BJJ, none of which I had to use.
I honestly feel you are much better off becoming a mechanic, bouncing is not as great as everyone (including myself at one point) makes it out to be.

[Dr Liftalot]

Don't do it, i know allot of bouncers through MMA and let me tell you they aren't happy with there jobs and thier's a huge risk factor with limited rewards. Not to mention, you probably wouldn't want to put it on your resume, considering most people consider bouncers to be no more then payed thugs.

[Aeternitatis]

Nobody picked up on my horribly tacky Phillip K. Di.ck joke?

I didn't... I just started reading his stuff. I like Neil Stephenson and heard the Phillip Dlck was the original cyber-punk author. So far I'm about 1/2 way through The Penultimate Truth. I like it. His style is really interesting.

[Aeternitatis]

Don't do it, i know allot of bouncers through MMA and let me tell you they aren't happy with there jobs and thier's a huge risk factor with limited rewards. Not to mention, you probably wouldn't want to put it on your resume, considering most people consider bouncers to be no more then payed thugs.

Resume's not a problem... I like my job with MN. I'm just looking for something to do on the side.

[Mulletsoldier]

I didn't... I just started reading his stuff. I like Neil Stephenson and heard the Phillip Dlck was the original cyber-punk author. So far I'm about 1/2 way through The Penultimate Truth. I like it. His style is really interesting.

Yes he was. Next chance you get, purchase A Scanner Darkly. There was recently a movie based on it I believe, in a very interesting style.

[BigCasino]

Yes he was. Next chance you get, purchase A Scanner Darkly. There was recently a movie based on it I believe, in a very interesting style.

Yes, I haven't read the book but I enjoyed the movie. It was done using cell shading & rotoscope animation techniques. Filmed with real actors and locations, but then having effects applied to make it appear more animated / drawn.

In any case, let's keep the bouncing convo going, I've never seen anyone 5'9" ~ 160lbs bouncing before, so I am really interested in the number of you talking about it

[Cannon454]

The entire movie was shot live action then scanned and inked by animators. Which is what gives the fluid feel to the film. The bouncer job depends on the bar. At your size though, you'll have a tough time getting the job. All though once your there it sounds like you'd do fine.

[Aeternitatis]

Which version of the film are you guys referring to? There's two out.

[Cannon454]

Which version of the film are you guys referring to? There's two out.

Holy jebus I got confused. I was walking about waking life not a scanner darkly

[toughchick401]

I was a bouncer for awhile, yes i am a girl...LOL 5'11, 140 at the time, was fun, not that I could handle the big drunk guys but i could handle the annoying drunk girls, and i also know karate (never had to use it) but always good to know.........i think in some cases, my friend who got me the job used to use me as the "lure" to get the guys out of the club, thinking i was just a girl at the club.....but the fun wore off to many 3am nights for me......didnt mix well with grad school..........

So good luck