It’s pretty hardcore to start bouncing in one’s 60s, but that’s exactly what Eric Voyce did. That being said, he wasn’t patrolling an unruly dance club in downtown Cardiff with blackened windows across the front of the venue. Rather, he was a bouncer — and “doorman,” as BBC says — at the Cardiff Medical Centre Sports & Social Club at the University Hospital of Wales. Even so, for a social club at a hospital to have a bouncer it must rank amongst the most raucous medical facilities around.
We don’t have a ton of details about how Voyce got started at his job, but it was more Voyce’s retirement activity than any kind of serious work. Back during World War II, he traveled with the RAF to places like Italy, Egypt, and Lebanon, wielding his skills as a mechanic all the while. When he retired from Cardiff Screen Printing at the age of 66, he made some kind of delivery to the club in 1985, was asked to help guard the door, and continued doing so quite literally until he died in 2013.
By 2009, he was making £5.80 an hour, and working two or three times a week. He also got a free half-pint of his favorite beer — Worthington Bitter — with every shift, which is definitely a sound reason to keep going to work into one’s 90s.
