Nathan James, who learned his trade the hard way at a meeting place for ‘scumbags’, lets Leo Benedictus in on the gentle art of being a nightclub bouncerA warm breeze stirs the stringy dreadlocks hanging below Nathan James’s hat. “It was weird to start off with,” he says. Six years ago, he was working for his mother’s business, selling office furniture, when the company folded and he was suddenly jobless at the age of 19, and feeling a little desperate. Then someone at his gym suggested that, instead of selling swivel chairs, he might try breaking up fights for a living.So, without a licence to begin with, he gave it a go. “And I kind of enjoyed it,” he says, amiable and laid-back. “I got a little buzz, kicking people out or stopping them fighting. Although obviously there’s good and bad sides to it.” Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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