vocation vs occupation

vocation and occupation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vocation	Yes	No	No	No
occupation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, occupation is a hypernym of vocation; that is, occupation is a word with a broader meaning than vocation:

Other hypernyms of vocation include business, job, line, line of work.

vocation (noun)	occupation (noun)
the particular occupation for which you are trained	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
a body of people doing the same kind of work	the act of occupying or taking possession of a building
	the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power
	any activity that occupies a person's attention
	the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied