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...love the entrepreneurial dirty jobs or the people who are literally just surviving on some crazy niche, like the avian vomitologist. Owl vomit looks very much like a piece of charcoal. The reason Don Cicoletti collects it is because if you crack the vomit open and start to pull it apart, you'll find the hair and bones from the prey the owl has swallowed whole. Don sells these things by the boatload to elementary schools, and the kids put the mouse back together again. This guy is making a living crawling through the woods looking for owl vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone's Gotta Love It | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...Cicoletti, the avian vomitologist, says, "Hey, as long as I'm bent over I might as well pick something up." That's great advice. We are all bent over metaphorically one way or another. If we took the time to pick up whatever's in front of us, hey, who knows? It could turn into gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Someone's Gotta Love It | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

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