Either shop keeper or Farmer for sure.
Shop keeper (This could be a "late game" life that you could unlock after getting to a certain level in a certain amount of lives):
For this life you could buy a shop similar to how you buy a house. Then you can furnish our your shop with things you can make with the carpenter life (Display tables, counter, ect) and then you can sell whatever you can make from what ever life. I feel like that would be a really fun thing to have to micro-manage, and maybe since the game isn't about staying in one place, you could hire people to work for you after a while, and maybe even buy places in other towns to expand your business.
Farmer:
This I cannot help but wonder why it's not already in the game, from what I've heard it was one of the 8 mysterious classes that for some reason never made it to the final game. For this life though, you could grow your own resources that would help with like the cook and the tailor lives, along with other lives as well. Since there's so much farmland about, you can see how a farmer life would work. But maybe you could also make your own farmland like, just outside your house or something like that, or maybe somewhere out in the plains there would be an allotment area. That would be pretty cool.