{"id":51910,"date":"2018-11-28T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=44609"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T11:32:21","slug":"cardiff-character-olivia-dickeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2018\/11\/28\/cardiff-character-olivia-dickeson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Character: Olivia Dickeson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This young businesswoman from Cardiff is on the terrifying verge of quitting her day job and becoming her own boss <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44613\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 980px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC.jpg 980w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC.jpg 980w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-CC-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/noscript> Olivia at her desk, where she spends all her free time editing wedding videos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Working a full-time job can be tough. Working two full-time jobs, simultaneously, is exhausting. Olivia Dickeson discovered this last year when she started her wedding videography business.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old from Roath is still the assistant house manager at the New Theatre in Cardiff where she works between 30 and 37 hours a week, but she spends all of her available evenings and weekends building her wedding empire. Over the last 12 months her business\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviamadethis.co.uk\/\">Olivia Made This\u00a0<\/a><\/i>has been very busy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, my first year of business I filmed 17 weddings and next year I\u2019ve currently got 25 weddings booked,\u201d Olivia says, glancing through her planner which is crammed with notes and numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia films what some would regard as the most important day of their lives, a high-pressure job indeed, but there\u2019s much more to it than that, something she\u2019s eager to make clear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s taken me about a year to kind of wrap my head around the idea that I might be a businesswoman&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alongside the camera work there\u2019s also the weeks of editing, the wedding fayres, the bookings. \u201cIf there&#8217;s a time that I&#8217;m at home it&#8217;s very rare that I&#8217;m not doing my wedding stuff,\u201d she says, gesturing to her desk which is scattered with every imaginable card: memory cards, business cards, and thank you cards from happily married clients.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>Becoming a businesswoman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Olivia is clearly confident in her skills, which she picked up on her Film and Video degree at the University of South Wales, but far more cautious about giving herself a title.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just feel incredibly lucky\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s taken me about a year to kind of wrap my head around the idea that I might be a businesswoman.\u00a0I still find it quite difficult when I introduce myself to people. My go-to is to tell them I work in the theatre and not that I have a wedding videography business,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Olivia\u2019s anxiety stems from being able to do what she loves for a living, as though it were too good to be true. Olivia admits she\u2019s a hopeless romantic who enjoys the atmosphere of people when they\u2019re at their happiest. \u201cI just feel incredibly lucky,\u201d she smiles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44616\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44616 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-desk-480x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44616 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/Olivia-desk-480x312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript> Business cards, memory cards and thank you cards cover the workspace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Olivia says she loves her job at the theatre but plans to take on enough weddings to commit full-time to her business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be a warrior<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sitting on her desk, propped near the Mac where she edits the wedding videos is a card that reads \u2018Be a warrior, not a worrier\u2019. This mantra reminds Olivia to focus on her ability, and not the pressure and risks that come with having a business.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44617 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/warrior-480x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44617 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/11\/warrior-480x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" \/><\/noscript> A card propped up on Olivia\u2019s desk, reminding her what she\u2019s capable of<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next to the card there\u2019s a phone. The phone rings. Another engaged couple are interested in the work Olivia has posted online. Another couple who want Olivia to film their special day. Another step closer to Olivia reaching her self-employed goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there are obviously periods during the year that aren&#8217;t busy\u2026\u201d Olivia trails off, adding the latest appointment to her diary.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that the prospect of becoming your own boss is an anxious one, but Olivia\u2019s packed planner and strong work ethic suggest the path of a competent and successful businesswoman \u2013 of a warrior and not a worrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This young businesswoman from Cardiff is on the terrifying verge of quitting her day job and becoming her own boss <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":46614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[150,731,2673,4094,5984],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-51910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-film","tag-video","tag-videography","tag-wedding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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