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So, I'm guessing you've completely turned around on your views of GURPS by now?
I'd state that you might want to add a few campaign specific fields instead of "Race and Occupation" depending on the game. while making Racial and Character templates before everyone sits down to the game, sometimes though it might good to think of characters as more than a combination of the two.
In a modern realistic game, Race might not matter so much. In a Supers game an Occupation is little more than background for secret identities. In some fantasy settings, everyone's human but there's a caste system where whether your a noble or a serf is PC defining...