DJ Stief's career has included working for The Adelaide Museum as a registrar.  In television as a props maker and curiously Dingbat Wrangler on the children's series 'The Adventures of Chuck Finn", in the print media with The New Age Guardian and Australian Consolidated Press.  He also worked with Adelaide Festival Centre over many years organising exhibitions, writing and directing plays, creating sculptures, creating shows and putting together Horny Strings who went onto become Zephyr String Quartet.