He taught at Mahinda College for some time and then he returned to Colombo to work as the secretary of the General Insurance Company.
[2] Before starting his media career, he worked as a teacher in Mahinda College himself and later in a high-paying job at the then General Insurance Company.
He was on the Editorial Staff of Divaina, Daily News, Sunday Observer, Silumina, Janatha and was the Editor-in-Chief of "Navanugaya".
He wrote about the film Hamlet under the title 'Sinhala Chithrapati Karayinta Adarsha Padamak ('An Exemplary Lesson for Sinhala Filmmakers').
[2] He initiated the study of Mass Communication at the higher education subject in Sri Lanka.
[4] Prof. Wimal Dissanayake and Edwin Ariyadasa later pioneered the subject of Mass Communication at the University of Kelaniya.