There is a joke with the terms “occupation and “pre-occupied.” “Unemployment is good now because i realized i can put ‘pre-occupied’ on any forms that ask for my occupation” was posted on Twitter by bkshlfstd on March 9, 2018.
 
“Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on November 23, 2019.
 
     
Twitter
Nico James
@DeWanderingSage
What’s my occupation?? I’m too pre-occupied with life..no time for their punch clock promises
2:33 PM · May 23, 2010·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
bkshlfstd
@bookshelfstud
unemployment is good now because i realized i can put “pre-occupied” on any forms that ask for my occupation
7:46 AM · Mar 9, 2018·Twitter Web Client
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/shagminer November 23, 2019
Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
 
Twitter
Kids and life hacks
@guys_and
Someone asked me what my occupation was. I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
1:09 PM · Nov 23, 2019·IFTTT
 
Twitter
John Noonan
@NoonManTC
Someone asked me today what my occupation was.
I said I never got that far because I was always pre-occupied.
#jnjoke
5:42 PM · Nov 23, 2019·Facebook