Post #388192 by Chip and Andy on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 3:21 PM

On 2008-06-19 14:52, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
..just an observation....it seems there aren't many, if any younger folk in this scene....who will carry the torch years from now??

I think it is not just Tiki suffering from this.... this...... not sure what to call it?

When I got out of school, I couldn't get a job because all of the 'old guys' weren't going to give up their position until they were dead. Now, 20 plus years later, they are all retired/dead and all of the business are scrambling trying to find someone, anyone, who can do the job. Not enough people with the skill set now.

Basically, more people are retiring/dying and there are fewer people in the next generation to replace them. It is everywhere, not just tiki.

The good news, as the older tiki-philes die off the younger ones can get their mug collections.

I don't mean that in the cut-throat hurry-up-and-die way that it sounds, I mean that as long as someone is trying to carry the torch things are OK. The younger generation just may have more torches to carry....