Arrol was a radio announcer in Vancouver and Calgary in the 1940s and 1950s until graduating from University of British Columbia and teachers college, teaching in Vancouver in the early 1960s and for the Scarborough Board of Education (at Woburn Collegiate Institute) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Arrol was a radio broadcaster in Vancouver and Calgary from the 1940s to the 1950s, before pursuing higher education and eventually becoming an educator. He taught in Vancouver during the early 1960s and worked with the Scarborough Board of Education at Woburn Collegiate Institute from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.