Who are you?
Olivia Grace Chasse
Birth name is Hyeun Lim.
Korean American adoptee, with a knack for creativity and visual based hobbies.
The rest I’m taking my time to figure out.
What is it that you want to do?
I want to help fund comfort/travel for my family
I want to have a really nice kitchen, and as an extension I want one of the fancy rice cookers that sing to you when its done cooking.
I want to see the world
I want to create with longevity
I want to have a job and life that can provide fulfillment
I want to fiinally figure out how to balance work and life
Why?
People talk a lot about how money doesnt equal happiness.
Which is true.
But having enough pocket change lifts so much stress and it frees up so much time, energy, and mental space because you dont have to constantly worry about making rent, feeding you family, affording your medications–
All that freedom allows you to pursue the things that make life worth living.
So In regards to my monetary wants, I dont need an insane amount of pointless luxury, but I would like to have what lucy liu calls ‘fuck you money’ which is a semi-aggressive version of having an abundance-first outlook on money and mindset. It’s about always having enough so you don’t feel obligated to say yes to every single project thats presented to you. Yes thats a part of the early career grind, but its not a system built for creative longevity.
I know what it’s like to always be worrying about money,
I know what it’s like to have to help out on rent when you’re still a kid,
I know what it’s like to watch someone stay in a job they hate just because it pays the bills.
Due to tight budgets my parents havent seen much of the world despite having the immense appetite to. I would love to go to South Korea with my mom, dad, and sister (on separate occasions because all of them at once would make me mental) and I would love to do it before they’re too old to properly enjoy walkable cities.
Where do you want to go?
Everywhere.
I can appreciate the grind of people who stay rooted in a single city for their entire life but the world is so big and theres so much to see and do, and so many people to meet, love, and hate. My family has known since i was 12 that theyd probably lose me to another country or continent.
I have a hard time framing these questions in a career sense just due to my inexperience and ever persistent importer syndrom regarding my work. I dont know if i know what I want. In my mind every question and it’s accompanying answer feels so concrete, like if i say it, that has to be my future. Which i know is kind of blasphemous. But eh. I have time to figure it all out. And I believe in my ability to be okay.
What would you want to say?
I am a great friend
I am a supportive sister
I am a great daughter.
I stand by my work.
I deserve the space I occupy.
I love the life im building and appreciate what ive already built.
I think my design persona is still in the works, and I don’t have some great manifesto the world needs to know about. But who knows. Maybe I’ll have my own creative propaganda one of these days.