Jobbins went to Bondi Public School, and later studied art at the East Sydney Tech College.

In 1950, she went to work at Anthony Horden's Department Store where she met, and later married Henry Edward Jobbins.

Jobbins worked as a script supervisor on the propaganda film "A Yank Down Under", about R&R leave in Sydney during World War II.

Jobbins subsequently modelled swim suits for Coles of California Swimwear (a New Zealand Company).

Later she left and joined Ralph Blunden's agency where she took control of the Australian Wool Board account working in collaboration with models, photographers and illustrators such as Maggie Tabberer, Henry Talbot, Helmut Newton, Patrick Russell,[1] Des O'Brien, Barbara Robertson and others.