Shearer Carol Mudford has won the Rural Women's Award for her work on improving mental health. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS

After countless long, hot days working in shearing sheds, Carol Mudford reckons she has the best job in the world.

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The physical work is satisfying, while the act of carefully shearing a sheep has a unique way of focusing the mind.

"We have this amazing community - our shed family - we get to travel the country and the world," Ms Mudford told AAP.

"Going to work is pumping music, good people and adventure."

But wool sheds were not always a natural setting fo

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