Thank you for posting this. I think there must be even more back story but of course you are not obligated to share it.
I am astonished it takes two years of study to be a bailiff in Poland. As I understand it the job requires a basic understand of a very narrow area of law, plus the 'soft skills' to avoid escalating difficult situations into violent ones. Is the long study some kind of gatekeeping?
I have rahther limited knowledge on why this occupation is so regulated here - but the regulation is rather brutal and encoded into law. Here you can see law (bill?) on court bailiffs applicants:
Two first points of article 66 regulates maximum number of yearly applicants (which cannot be bigger than 15% of current count of bailiffs). And first point of article 93 sets the study length at two years. I also forgot that my brother had to do additional obligatory two year practice after this two year study (as "assesor komorniczy" - this is also regulated in article 11 of bill mentioned above).
The rationalization behind it all seems to be that being court bailiff gives you quite large amount of power and potential for earning lots of money eventually - if they (the government) will let you at some point start your own practice/office the money will start pouring in (you get a percent from each confiscation! most old bailiffs becomes millionairs eventually).
My brother never got to this point - he was at the lowest possible position, doing all dirty work, earning a little bit above national minimum wage, and then he burned out.
As as side note - I work in IT, and each time I feel burned out, I remember my brother and this somehow puts into perspective what does it actually mean to be burned down (this of course does not mean that there are no real problems with overworking, work-life balance and depression in IT industry, but still - we have it really good).
I am astonished it takes two years of study to be a bailiff in Poland. As I understand it the job requires a basic understand of a very narrow area of law, plus the 'soft skills' to avoid escalating difficult situations into violent ones. Is the long study some kind of gatekeeping?