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Merridale Angus
opportunities for young people coming into the industry and it was a new one that popped up and my mum and my aunt sent it to me and said, this looks great, put your name down.” “I did and I thought, I’ll just see how I go. I’ll do the interview and just tell them that I’m keen to come back into the industry, learn a lot and just get more information about various parts of the industry. And I ended up getting it, which was fantastic. It was such a surprise to me.” When she considers her time in the cadetship and how it has shaped parts of her life since, Bonnie was forthcoming with encouragement for other young people in the industry to apply for the cadetship opportunities offered by the Angus Foundation in the future. “In myself, personally, I feel through doing the Marcus Oldham Rural Leadership Program I’ve got so many other skills in my toolbox that I can use, and I feel like I’ve got the confidence to go out into these new roles I’ve discovered. It’s been great.” “It’s completely changed my life, really, in a sense. The cadetship has given me a new career, new peers around me that are different in the industry. I’ve got to network with a lot of really cool contacts, and my future just looks completely different to how it did before the cadetship.”
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