When I was 20 years old I worked at a laboratory for the University of Iceland, under my father who was a professor there. The work revolved around making a craft kit from natural Icelandic fish waste. It started when my father had an idea for new innovation for removing fish scales from fish skin, cleaning it, dying it in several colors, packaging it and then selling it as a novel hobby item for customers such a tourists. This job involved me having to go down to the docks and collect certain type of Redfish scale waste, drive it back to the University lab, process the Redfish scales to isolate each of them, dry them for a few days, them color them in 10 different ways, package them in plastic bags, and then lastly attach them to a craft card. We tried to promote the product to various companies and hotels, but with little success. This was at a time that innovation and startups were just beginning in Iceland, so there was no government assistance or financial aid on offer to get this along. We tried for a bit, but them had to give up on this endeavor in the fall of 1992. We did try however, made something from nothing and gave it out best. That’s the best you can do in life.
