I like how you can become business partners with anyone. It would be awesome if there was a legit way of working together. I’m suggesting a DLC that involves running a business like a cafe, a restaurant, a small shop of some kind maybe involving crafts and/or farming produce… WITHOUT taking away from the actual game and making it something else.
I haven’t done it yet but I know you can start a stall/small shop thing now, BUT imagine designing your own cafe like you build your own home. The Zois could take orders from the customers and even run plates to the customers tables! Your cooking skills could be put to work in the kitchen by making food for the restaurant/cafe while all the more social Zois are servers/waitresses or cashiers! It could make the skill you worked hard to build come in handy and boost your earnings or pull in more customers, OR push them away~
You could sell all the crafts that you made to NPCs as a normal income, or sell the produce from the farm in a more legit shop with the higher the skill meaning better quality merchandise. If there were any messes to clean, you could fit it into your tasks for the work shift. You could direct your Zois to stock the shop when it’s empty. Or have Zois acting as cashiers or security for the shops. It could be fun to direct your Zois to do the work or see how they fare on their own with autonomy! There would be lots of things to do while you were at work because you are doing the work or watching them do the work! Your business partners would also be your coworkers, or you could find a stranger needing a career and hire them!
After the work shift is over, you return to home to do your normal thing with the rest of your family and friends or solo until it’s time to go back to work. Since the Zois only work about 3 days a week it would be an interesting break from the normal home life without being too overbearing and you could use that time to craft more items or farm more produce to sell if time is on your side.
I think it’d also be awesome if you could use your housework skills as a profession where you get sent to random homes and your job is to clean up the whole house or homes before the work shift ends. Depending on how many homes you clean if it’s more than one you get more compensation. Also if you’re handy skill is high enough, you could even repair some broken things for an extra bonus!