Medical Necessity

Fresh out of the University of Florida with a degree in construction, Mark Stevens turned down what seemed like a graduate's dream job.

“I almost took a job with Disney World,” says Stevens. It was 1990 and the company was going to send Stevens to California and Europe to work on designs for its theme parks. “It sounds sexy, and the pay was awesome,” he recalls.

Instead, Stevens came home to Cape Coral and went to work for Compass Construction, which had just five employees at the time. “I was never one for big bureaucracies,” he explains. “At Compass I had the opportunity to do everything.”