C’mon. If you don’t have a paying job, you’re (i)unemployed(/i).
Same for some other “occupations”.
Peace,
mangeorge
I was paid to study my first degree.
Scholarships, etc, don’t count.
And;
Brackets, stupid. Not those other thingies.
Unemployed means that you are looking for a job and don’t have one. A student is no more unemployed than a stay at home mom or a retiree.
I’m a teacher. When the new school year comes I will teach a full load of courses at a university, hold office hours, and do all the things that university teachers are supposed to do.
I also will not get a salary. I’m a Peace Corps Volunteer. I’ll get a living allowance and a small re-adjustment allowance at the end of my 2 years.
Am I unemployed?
A salary does not a job make.
What’s your real point? If a person is not looking for a job, the government doesn’t count them as unemployed. Do you think it would make any sense for every high school and college student in the world to list “unemployed” when asked for an occupation?
If you think your brother-in-law’s once a month underwater basketweaving class doesn’t count as an occupation, just say so.
Yeah, them too.
A lot of students I know work as servers, clerks, associates at Wallmart and the like.
They’re not unemployed.
Hey! Somebody moved this thread!
It was supposed to be in MPSIMS.
The forms I’m used to all say to be as honest as possible, and they all (in my experience) request information on academic status.
To not state it would be a crime.
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More like the Pit, I think. Rant and rave all you want, kids.
IMHO > Pit
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No, they are neither employed nor unemployed. They aren’t in the labor force.
Okay.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary, 2004 edition:
Being a student may not earn any money, but it certainly is a means of passing time. 
Agree. They are both unemployed.
Since we’re in the Pit, why the hell do you care?
I’m detecting a hint of scorn from the OP, as if having a paying job is the sine qua non of being a decent human being. This is not neccesarily the case, and the word “occupation” is ambiguous, as I’ve demonstrated with the dictionary cite.
Simply put, you’re wrong. 
Sorry, when I quit my job to finish my studies, I considered being a student to be my new job. And I treated it as such, which is good because the donors of my big scholarship expected it of me.
And I thought I ranted about stupid shit…
My tuition is over $5,000 this year, you bet your ass I’m employed!