Central Queensland teenager Bella Mahiny never thought she would end up in a shed packing mangoes over her summer holidays. She is filling a worker shortage and loving it.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleCopy linkTeenager Bella Mahiny is spending her summer holidays sorting and packing mangoes in a shed down the road from her family's central Queensland home.After a week of dawn starts, and hours immersed in the sweet but intense smell of freshly picked mangoes, the 15-year-old said she had landed a "pretty good" first job.
"Normally we've been around that 10th of December, this year we didn't start until the 20th," he said."The size is good. We had some help with some rain during fruit fill, which always helps." "We missed a season so a lot of those younger people that keep coming back to us every year, we lost them for a year and you're not training the staff up," he said.Employing a local workforce
The Keoghs' social media call-out for workers had plenty of engagement and in the end a handful of people were hired.
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