Mike Szabo was leaning against a wall near the bathroom at Tetherow Resort’s Event Pavilion in 2013, debating his next move. Having relocated to Bend from San Diego just five months before, he had decided to step back from his professional life as a landscape architect. With a pregnant wife and young child, he briefly considered taking a job as a server in a restaurant until he realized that “this whole server thing wasn’t going to workâwe needed to make more money to support the family.” He decided to go back to the profession he was trained in.
