Best completed school and commenced work as an office boy with a firm of Sydney based stockbrokers. During this period Best did not paint or sketch regularly in his spare time. In 1958 he married his wife Dorn and they raised six children. He stayed in the stockbroking industry for 28 years. In 1972 he recommenced painting and drawing in his spare time, and after significant encouragement from family and friends he left his stockbroking career to become a full-time professional artist in September 1977 at the age of 43.
