[willy]

I was appointed after a long selection and interview process the Officer of the Superior Court. Also known as a Constable. Some places are elected as yours. They enforce the Writs of Execution that come from the Civil Courts. Depending on the County population you may have anywhere from one to ten in a county. I am the constable for Hunterdon County and I have four towns in somerset County. There are three counties in my Vicinage as it is called.
You get fees from the State for each Writ you are issued to enforce and you get 10% of the monies you collect on each Writ.
Basically if you take someone to court and you win a judgement and they don't pay it right then and there as they rarely do it is issued to the Constable to collect by various means.
It is a tremendous amount of work and it takes time to build up any income as writs are issued to you but it can pay very well. In NJ you are like a bonded separate buisiness and like any buis it takes time to build.
In other states they are probably set up different like yours.
I am a Law Enforcement Officer with arrest powers here but rarely do any of that.
There is a lot more to it than that, but that is the basic jist.
To be honest I don't like it at all. I spent my whole life helping and protecting people, now I have to go after them when they get themselves in trouble finacially. Not all of them of course, most are just stupid or put themselves at risk one way or another with credit cards etc. There is a good percentage of just slackers who have lived off others or cheated others their whole life. Still if I did not have humongous college bills already with more to come I would be living next to Ozzie bothering him and drinking his liquor and fishing and hunting all day.
Life, it is a mysterious thing.