The skills of a muscle man. Gotta know when to look tough, when to bow out gracefully. How to be invisible when necessary and how to be quietly but utterly visible - when to pour a man a drink and when to smack him upside the head. He has to be able to read people better than his employer - charm them better and yet be paid minimally for these skills. Remain unbribable, unseducable, untouchable, unreachable and all for less than the man who he is protecting and that man can be bribed.
The reward is not having to think - not making the decision. The danger is when the boss fumbles, gives the wrong signal and the muscle man does what he is told, not what he is expected.
"If you didn't want him dead, why did you leave him with me?" --Mouse in "Devil in a Blue Dress"
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