Business or Fun?

So now it’s twice in two days that I have come across articles about people turning social activities into businesses.

Example 1:

Weekend outings – It’s hard to plan a social life in a big city where all you do is work or sleep. Two biz-school friends decided there was a business opportunity in this. For a fee, you get to be part of a group for whom they will organise 10 Sundays worth of activities. They organise, you show up, you meet other people, you hang out. It’s kind of what E and I have done for about three years now. But we only saw it as bringing friends together over interesting evenings.

Example 2:

Sunday suppers – There is no better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning than with friends, cooking a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients, trying out new recipes, drinking some great cocktails…you get the idea. We did it a few times at the home of a friend who is the best non-professional chef I have met. E even documented the afternoons by taking some excellent pictures. Today I learn that this same kind of Sunday (photographs and all) is available for a price by two talented ladies who run it as…a business.

It raises some questions for me:
- Let’s be honest, me (and mostly everyone else) needs all the cash we can get – are business opportunities just passing some of us by without us noticing?
- Since both the above examples exist in my life already, would I be comfortable turning either into a business?

I have no answers yet.