I can definitely make him the new guy, yeah! I think he's going to have been a bar tender before, but the bar he worked for for a long time closed down, and so he had to find another job fast, and a job where stripping while he wasn't tending bar was quicker. Maybe it was one where the patrons touched a bit much, and since he's strapped for cash (and refuses to ask for help), he started to really consider being more like a snake in the other place? Would Travis had not liked that?