UK to Australia 1927

[Bee]

A great aunt emigrated to Adelaide in 1927 at the age 38, the ship's passenger list gives her occupation as a waitress.

Is it likely that she already had an offer of a job or would she have had to find a job on arrival. Unfortunately the passenger list does not state with whom or where she was going to stay.

[Neale1961]

Not enough information available to know.
Was she an assisted passenger or non-assisted?
Why was she emigrating to Australia?
Did she have relatives / friends in Australia who might organised work?
Had she answered a newspaper advert for work?

[sparrett]

As happens even today, some newcomers to a country will arrive with employment arranged and others arrive with sufficient savings to tide them over until employment is found.
Other come for a holiday only.

So, it is not really possible to speculate on an answer to your query.
 

Sue

[aahume]

More detail re her full name , dob, would be helpful: also the ship's passenger list.

[Wayne N]

My grandfather was listed as fireman on the passenger listed when he emigrated from Rotterdam to Australia in 1914 for the second time. His imigration to Australia was complicated  The first time coming to Australia in 1910, he stowed away on a coalship.

Even though he was recorded as a fireman from Rotterdam on the 1914 passenger list and also on his naturalisation papers in 1912 - he worked on the shipping docks in Victoria, Australia as a rigger.

This was also the same for my father's side of the family when emigrating from England to Australia. They had a different occupation once in Australia to what was recorded on the passenger list.