Jose was offered a clerical position in Sydney but preferred to get Australian experience working in the country as a wood-chopper, cook, and fencing contractor.
Edwin Bean, headmaster of All Saints' College, Bathurst, New South Wales, who offered him a position as assistant master.
In 1888, under the pseudonym of "Ishmael Dare", Jose published a volume of poems, Sun and Cloud on River and Sea, a collection of musical verses.
Travelling then to London Jose published The Growth of the Empire (1901) and in 1902 was appointed professor of English and History at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, India.
In 1915 Jose resigned his position with The Times and was attached to the intelligence branch of the Royal Australian Navy with the rank of captain.