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He’ll dive into a second career as the boss of his own landscape design business that he’s planned to do for quite some time.

“I’ve been testing the water to do this for about three years. It’s either jump in or don’t go swimming,” said Stieg, who lives in the town of Algoma. “I’m going to enjoy the heck out of this. It’s such a change of pace from being inside a factory.”

Starting his own business, called Seven Oaks Custom Landscape Design, after more than 20 years with Bemis Specialty Films isn’t a short-term endeavor for the 53-year-old Stieg.

He has also worked for Copps Department Store, American Family Insurance and Marc’s Big Boy, where he specialized in cooking breakfast items.

“I would like to work at landscape design until I’m 68 or 69. It’s not out of the realm of possibility,” he said.

Stieg said shift work at Bemis was getting more difficult as he got older.

“I thought about doing my landscape and design business part-time, but it would be difficult to service my customers working every other day at Bemis,” he said. “The advice people told me was ‘Don’t do your landscape design business part-time because you’ll probably get too frustrated.’”

Stieg, who has teamed up for his services through McKay Nursery Company based in Waterloo, is no novice at landscape design.

For years, he’s landscaped the three-acre yard at his house.

“My neighbors said I was pretty good at landscaping,” Stieg said.

He decided to take horticulture classes at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton.
His first class was landscape design.

“The instructors saw some of my work and thought I was good at it,” Stieg said. “It’s one thing to have your neighbors tell you about your landscape talents, but when my instructors told me that I was good at it, that made me think about doing it as a job.”

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