She worked and studied in her own time and in 1962, she became an assistant at the  Natural History Museum. She specialised in entomology at the museum and she became an assistant of R.B. Benson.
As a driven individual, she balanced her personal pursuits with professional responsibilities. In 1962, she secured a position as an assistant at the Natural History Museum, where she applied her knowledge of entomology and worked closely with R.B. Benson.