Theory question 101
OccupationCommerce 2 (essay)
(a) What is occupation?
(b) With the aid of a diagram, show the different classes of occupation.
(c) Explain with one example each, three classes of occupation shown in 1(b) above.
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(a) Occupation is any lawful activity a person engages in regularly to earn a living.
(b) Diagram: OCCUPATION at the top branching into Industrial, Commercial and Direct services; Industrial branches into Extractive, Manufacturing and Constructive; Commercial branches into Trade (home and foreign) and Aids to trade (transport, banking, insurance, warehousing, advertising, communication).
(c)(i) Industrial occupation – producing goods by extraction, manufacturing or construction, e.g. mining.
(ii) Commercial occupation – distributing and exchanging goods (trade and aids to trade), e.g. banking or retailing.
(iii) Direct services – personal services rendered directly to people, e.g. teaching, medicine, law.
The diagram must show the three main classes and their sub-divisions.