Was the pay good?
Around 12 bucks an hour but this was 2002, 2003. And when I was a bouncer I wasn't hired by the bar, it was the security company I was working with that posted me there. I'm supposed to be "security" but I was really a bouncer.
I was dirty too.

I had me a lil system of sneaking people in. The most I ever got was 200 bucks to sneak this guy and his friend in the back velvet rope.
LOL @ this reminding me of the biggest brawl I had at the bar.
I wasn't in the firestorm just yet...it was already popping off in the bar section while I was on the opposite side where the outside bar was. The walkie talkies are on fire. I get there and my fellow brethren security guards/bouncers (2 Black one Hispanic) are in a brawl with some late twentyish white boys. I had to do the rush act running towards the firestorm. When I get to eye of the storm Its a Royal Rumble of well dressed people. For a split second I thought "I dont even like these dudes like that and I'm about to jump in this." Once I jumped in it I was able to actually help punch the eye out into a side hallway where dudes pretty much gave up by the time the doors opened and all 4 of us had the edge to roughly shove ourway outside with their bodies. They walk off and we all are talking shyt to each other while straightening our clothes. Up until that point i only had 1 small issue breaking up a fight with a whiteman using an umbrella like a sword on a white female,
I wasn't in the firestorm just yet...it was already popping off in the bar section while I was on the opposite side where the outside bar was. The walkie talkies are on fire. I get there and my fellow brethren security guards/bouncers (2 Black one Hispanic) are in a brawl with some late twentyish white boys. I had to do the rush act running towards the firestorm. When I get to eye of the storm Its a Royal Rumble of well dressed people. For a split second I thought "I dont even like these dudes like that and I'm about to jump in this." Once I jumped in it I was able to actually help punch the eye out into a side hallway where dudes pretty much gave up by the time the doors opened and all 4 of us had the edge to roughly shove ourway outside with their bodies. They walk off and we all are talking shyt to each other while straightening our clothes. Up until that point i only had 1 small issue breaking up a fight with a whiteman using an umbrella like a sword on a white female,

we never had no damn cover.