What could I do to bring in income?

What country?? sales, customer service…....banking…...

A lot of things.

Being a mother’s helper
Dog sitting or dog walking
Sell some of your personal belongings
Have a garage or yard sale
If you have musical talent, you could take your act to the streets

How about investing in a cheap condo? Buy it and then rent it out. You’ll have monthly income, that is if the tenant pays on time. Real estate is always a good investment.

You have an extremely high IQ, then? What are your interests?

Without finishing University, and after just two years of accounting, I was able to effectively check over other’s work. I was proofing finished accounts, looking for errors and that led to a myriad of opportunities in the field. If you have some accounting, that sort of work is always looking for sharp eyes and a sharp mind.

My husband worked as an electronic assembler as a temp and he did such a good job, they put him on the road as a serviceman for all their products. He got no training, just a tool box. He does not have a degree in electrical engineering. He is self taught. He is one of their most favoured servicemen, the others call him when they need help.

I don’t know what the job market is like where you are going. I think the investment in real estate is interesting. You could buy a duplex, and you could live in half of it, perhaps.

What about teaching assistant?

Bit out of left field I know, but what about looking at work with ASIO or similar organisations? The reason I say that is because the ability to spot patterns and an eye for detail would be valuable in that sort of work. I don’t think they are looking right now (according to their website) but I have seen them advertising a few times and you don’t need a degree to work for them.

I think you are moving to Adelaide and this sort of work would mean going to Canberra.

The other thing is to look for work with Centrelink or other government departments. Again, I am thinking about your eye for detail. The tax department or even Centrelink. Looking for anomalies might be work that would suit your abilities.

@AshlynM

“Real estate is always a good investment?” Tell that to the millions of people whose mortgages are now higher than the value of their homes.

If you have the money for it, you can speak with someone who knows how to run a business well in one location and expand their business in your region. Choose someone who has a track record for clean/clear/legal success. You would be the investor. They would provide the business plan.

It’s best if you choose a business that you know something about so you can keep your eyes on it and help out to make things run more smoothly and reduce cost.

By contract, your income would come from the profits of the business.

I’m with @cazzie, if you can take accounting courses then you’ll have a bunch of jobs to break into.

If you go down the accounting path, learn MYOB. It seems to be the program many small businesses use here. There is definitely work doing basic bookkeeping.

Recognizing patterns? Code breaking.

Are you really from / going to Australia? I am moving to Queensland soon.

We had many clients that ran MYOB and similar. Once you learn one of those types of small business accounting systems, the others are easy to pick up. I had one crusty client who refused to move over to a Windows operating program for his accounting, so I had to really dig out my ancient knowledge and get my head around his dos based system. So strange, because he was one of the first to adopt ‘net banking’. Thankfully, the dos product he had was still being supported and had an upgrade to enable me to dump the data from his net banking into it, so I didn’t have to double up on the work, but still, it was not very user friendly, and if there were errors they were more difficult to find and fixing them wasn’t as straight forward. Had to remember my debits and credits.

@prioritymail yes I’m going to SA. What are you going to do in Qld? are you going to be working?

What kinds of patterns? Patterns of numbers or what?

anything, numbers, letters, recurrences in any visual sequential thing,—cracks in walls—etc

I think a government position might work really well for you. There are so many roles where I can see your skill being useful. Possibly not friendly jobs, but valuable. I am thinking looking for fraud and anomalies. I would check out the Federal and State government websites. Even if you can get into an entry level position, that will open up the opportunity to look for jobs that appeal more and you may be offered work when you can demonstrate your specific skills.
Good luck @trailsillustrated. What about things like investigating agencies too. Things like looking for lost relatives in inheritance situations? I would imagine there are specific firms in Australia who do that sort of work.