she knew she would get some sex. According to Viv, "sometimes you would want to take out your girlfriend but if you miss work you know how it goes". Some of them felt left out, for example Harvey said that sometimes when he saw people going out he felt like the building he was protecting could not move.
             The social and economic problems faced by these security guards seemed overbearing.
             The baseline of the problem was "money". Some of those men worked as little as $4,000.00 per fortnight if they did not work overtime. Those men worked on average $48.00 per hour. Stan for example, did not work on Sundays because he had to go to church. He took home $6,000.00 fortnightly while his rent was $7,000.00 per month. Marcus was faced with a similar problem as he paid $7,500.00 per month for rent, paid school fees, bought books and food for the family. It was quite obvious that some of those men had life much easier than others. In the case of Viv with three children, he also had to take care of his younger sister and brother since the death of their father. Marlon had two sisters, a baby on the way and his mother to take care of at that time. The bills were soaring high and the spouses of these men were almost helple
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