Deciding what you want to do for the rest of your life can be overwhelming, especially when you're just about to finish school. One Queensland program is giving teenage girls first-hand experience of what their future could look like in the Air Force.
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00:00These gruelling exercises aren't just for fitness, they're giving 16 young women the
00:14opportunity to see what it takes to have a career in the Air Force.
00:19Leading the program is Squadron Leader Catherine Humphreys, the first female and transgender
00:24individual to hold a combat role in the Royal Australian Air Force.
00:28Through the research we've found that people don't apply for jobs unless they can actually
00:33see themselves in those jobs or they've been exposed to those jobs.
00:37And particularly for young women, they don't really see themselves in these sort of roles
00:41unless they actually get this experience.
00:43Jenny Fenn completed the program more than seven years ago.
00:47I got to go on that camp not knowing exactly what I wanted to do and seven years later
00:52I'm in that exact role that I was exposed to.
00:54Over the past ten years the program has seen through more than 500 young women, giving
00:59them a bird's eye view of what their future career paths could look like.
01:04It's also given me a better idea of what I would actually end up doing when I joined.
01:08Being able to fly is just something you don't experience every day and being part of this
01:13program you get to see all sorts of flight and it's just, it's a wonder.
01:19While some have a clear idea of their future paths, others are just hoping to wing it.
01:24I think I'll stay and probably do mechanics.
01:28Yeah, all logistics, we'll see.