The phrase "occupy profession" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe someone who holds a job or is engaged in a particular field of work, but the wording is awkward.
Example: "He decided to occupy a profession in engineering after completing his studies."
Alternatives: "pursue a career" or "engage in a profession."
Over the course of the last few years, Richard Fox and I have surveyed and interviewed thousands of people whom we consider "eligible candidates" - highly successful individuals who occupy the professions that are most likely to precede a career in politics: law, business, education, and political activism.
If U.S. students have a negative impression -- or no impression at all -- of science and engineering (and if such professions occupy relatively low-profile levels of visibility in the public), then students will hardly choose them as professions.
Better to explain what Cobb does for a living, since that exhaustive enumeration of the metaphysical rules of his profession occupies an awful lot of the dialogue in Mr. Nolan's script.
Increasingly, the medical profession occupies a powerful social position and has growing influence over resource allocation in the UK healthcare.
Although Ukraine had been part of the Russian empire since 1654, many Ukrainians had never been reconciled, while the Russians who formed a significant part of the landed gentry, and who came to occupy senior positions in the professions, the officer corps and the civil service, continued to speak Russian and to look to Moscow as the centre of their culture.
Collectively, the graduates occupy the whole range of professions that we value in our society.
Now, accent-free, well-educated and thoroughly American Hindus will, like Jews and Catholics and Muslims before them, come to occupy a wide variety of professions, form a broad range of friendships and associations, intermarry and otherwise assimilate.
And F.Y.I. -- among the elite professions occupied by my "helicoptered" classmates, some of the more privileged ones have chosen to become teachers -- in public schools.
This less than reputable class of realtor tends to occupy a large cross-section of the profession's population.
But what has made the group even more an object of suspicion is that some of its members do not readily identify themselves as such, and occupy influential positions in business, politics and other professions.
Patient organizations also failed to gain much political purchase: they were never able to mobilize large-scale popular support, and they were forced to occupy a subordinate position, when compared to the medical profession, within the health policy community.
