Joyce went on several sea cruises. she visited New Zealand when she was young (18-20?) and Fiji in the 1950's.

Joyce joined the Victorian Ambulance Division in 1936. She gave classes and worked at the Royal Womens and Alfred Hospitals. She was an Honary instructor of the St John Ambulance Association. She began the Caulfield Nursing Division of the Ambulance Brigade and had been its superintendent for 3 years when she was awarded the Order of St. John in recognition of her first aid and nursing service.

Sid McNaughton also recalls that her efforts as a volunteer with St John's Ambulance were not always appreciated. On one occasion when bush fires were burning in the Dandenongs, Joyce was moving about and getting in the way (or possibly endangering herself) and was given the ultimatum by the poice that she should either do what she was told or get out of the fire zone.

Joyce had wanted to train as a nurse but, because of the depression, her father could not afford the 5 pounds per week cost of training. She worked as a volunteer nursing aid, and sometimes worked as scab labour during nurses strikes.•1

Joyce worked near the corner of Williams St and Collins Street for a company that traded under several names: R.G. Grant & Co, Cotton Dressings Pty Ltd, Joubert & Joubert and Federal Chemicals Ltd. She was one of 5 'girls' in the office.•2

Later she worked for many years in the office of Federal Chemicals Limited in Abbotsford. She lost her job after the company changed hands and subsequently ran a secretarial business from her home in Clarence Street, doing typing and copying.

Joyce had a friend named Betty Langham, who she met travelling on the tram travelling to work. When a job at Federal Chemicals came vacant, Joyce told Betty, who then worked there for many years. Joyce sometimes got her way at the office by having crying spells. Later, when management changed and she tried this tactic again; the new manager told her she could leave if she ever tried that again. She didn't.•3

Joyce lived with her parents until both were dead. She then sold the family home at 24 Clarence Street, E. Malvern and bought a flat at 34 Edgar St, Malvern. Later, about 1995, she became unable to look after herself and went into a hostel in Glenhuntly Road.

•1 Elizabeth Fabinyi, 1996.
•2 Joyce's memories recorded by Keith in 1997. Inaccuracies are likely since her memory was patchy by then.
•3 Betty Langham