Every once in a while I get a reminder about a big challenge to the onsite industry — the aging of our workforce. It happened again recently when the phone rang and Alligator Annie was on the other end of the line, talking a blue streak about big plans to sell her business installing mostly aerobic systems across East Texas.
I recalled how Annie — her real name is Alma Tippins — had been profiled in the April 2006 issue of Onsite Installer. And those 17 years ago, when she was age 62, she was already talking about selling Alligator Annie’s in
