Back in the 1990s, I was a treeplanter in Northern Ontario and Quebec which is a dirty enough job, regardless of all the baby bears around

However during those summers I also had the rare opportunity to meet the rare hermit worker called a spruce sap collector. These scruffy old guys spend months at a time bushwaking through the tightly packed spruce forests of Northern Quebec. Their tool looks like a turkey baster, and the consists of squeezing trough these prickly trees and poking all the sap bubbles they can find and collect it into bags. It's a dirty lonesome dangerous job in a very remote location. I seem to remember that each litre of sap was worth 60-100 $ to pharmaceutical companies... Not the "ickyest" job around, but certainly dirty and odd.