This could provide his son with a profitable occupation.

For most of the last 20 years, being a Nasdaq market maker has been a very profitable occupation.

There are times when hate is a much more profitable occupation than making love."

For centuries, lobstering was a profitable occupation in the Sound.

Judging by their starveling look, it was not profitable occupation.

Black-marketeering became the most profitable occupation, stealing and intimidation a second best.

However many Nadar climbers were reluctant to give up their profitable occupation.

Fitchuk, a third income earner is a profitable occupation for many from this area.

Finally, Agricola argues that mining is an honorable and profitable occupation.

"Operating these organized channels is a profitable occupation and is often part of a larger 'Mafia-style' operation," the report says.

Fishing is another profitable occupation along the Danube and the Siret River.

But when peace and safety were restored, and every man became engaged in useful and profitable occupation, less attention was paid to the calls of Congress.

Because of the demand for dwarfs and other novelties in the courts of kings at this time, this could have been a profitable occupation.

In the first scene, an old woman praises her beauty and suggests a profitable occupation, procuring her for the gentleman shown to the back of the image.

In 2004, Chatterjee published the well-received Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (Seven Stories Press).

Following his arrest for that crime, he lost his job in law enforcement and turned to illegally importing and distributing alcohol from Canada as a full-time and highly profitable occupation.

By the mid-17th century, mining was in decline, as the silver deposits had been all but exhausted (in 1666 there remained only 16 iron smelteries), forcing the population to seek a more profitable occupation.