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Occupation may refer to:

In business:

• Employment, a person's job or work in service of an employer
• Profession, an occupation requiring specialized knowledge
• Vocation, an occupation pursued more for altruistic benefit rather than for income
• Career, a person's occupational history
• Day job, an occupation solely for income, while pursuing another preferred career track
• List of occupations
• Standard Occupational Classification System, developed and used by the U.S. government
• Occupational prestige, the relative esteem in which a particular job is held
• Occupational therapy, assisting people who have difficulty performing occupational functions
• Occupational science, the study of humans as occupational beings
• Occupational disease, chronic ailment resulting from work
• Occupational crime, opportunistically committed in the course of legal occupation

In a military context:

• Military occupation, control of a territory by a military force
• Law of occupation, portions of the law of war which relate to military occupation
• List of military occupations, notable historical instances of military occupation

In film and television:

• Occupation 101, a 2006 documentary film about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Occupation: Dreamland, a 2006 documentary film about the Iraq War
• Occupation (TV serial), a 2009 television serial about the Iraq War
• Occupation Double, a Canadian reality television show
• "Occupation" (Battlestar Galactica), an episode in the third season

In music:

• Occupation: Foole, a comedy album by George Carlin
• "The Beautiful Occupation", a song by the band, Travis

Other meanings:

• Occupation (protest), the temporary forceful occupation of a building, space or symbolic site
• Occupancy, use of a building for shelter or support of persons, animals, or property

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