Deletion of List of occupations

Comment: or make a main and sub-lists, such as List of occupations by occupation fields. Otherwise utterly unnecessary and  & 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:IINFO||WP:NOTDIR)

Comment: per , Colonel Warden and Dream Focus. There is a popular misconception that lists and categories are mutually exclusive.  empathically says that they are mutually reinforcing, not exclusive. To paraphrase ThemFromSpace above, this is a case where a category is OK ''and a list is too'', per . Also let us remember that lists are '''navigational aids'''. They are not articles like others. They are more akin to navboxes. A list is therefore a case in which ''usefulness'', which is usually not an inclusion criteria, becomes essential. The list in question is a clear case of a useful list for browsing WP (see first criteria of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLS||WP:CLS||WP:AOAL||WP:AOAL)