British women are flocking to Australia to work in mines and earn up to £4,400 for just two weeks of work.
As an increasing number of young people complain about the lack of career opportunities in the UK, others have found a solution Down Under as FIFO workers, which stand for Fly In Fly Out.
FIFO, an employment type where professionals fly to and from remote locations for shift work, has grown in popularity in mining and resources sectors, particularly in states such as Queensland and Western Australia, according to Bravus.
While it may not seem like a typical career path, multiple individuals have left their lives behind in England and Ireland to work a blue-collar mining job in sunny Australia.
Hardcore manual labour might not be for everyone, but the hefty sums of cash on offer after just hours working on the sites have lured countless Britons to give the job a go.
After struggling to find opportunities with her Film Degree from Queen’s University in Belfast, Caithilín Hughes, 26, left Ireland’s Derry for a machine operator job in Perth‘s mines.
The lifestyle change was admittedly not a passion but part of the ‘money game’, she told the Irish Independent.
Caithilín told the newspaper, ‘The average hourly wage for a machine operator is around $55. We work 12-hour days for 14 days straight. That’s around $9,240 before tax.’