"That's a very good point. I should have thought of that." Indeed, one does not build an amusement park ride without consulting accessibility guidelines as well as workplace and public safety rules. Tanya is still thinking as a soldier, proposing quick and risky solutions. She's even less qualified to be a civil engineer than she is a military one!

"Well, I can at least show images of things I saw while flying here." Sunrise over mountains. A river winding its way through an endless procession of little villages. The view from two miles up, once the plains opened up, with all the kingdoms of the world dukedoms of Taldor laid out before her.

Tanya is willing to stay for a little while. Maybe she can overhear something that gives her a new idea, or a new perspective. Maybe someone will come talk to her and do this more efficiently.

People coming through the church pause to admire her illusions! Somebody does a sketch of one, with scrawled-in notes on the colors, perhaps for a later painting. A little girl is very loud about wanting to be the one to put the coin in the offering box but most people are pretty quiet, or at least go to other rooms to do loud things like choir rehearsal.

This gives Tanya time to think, which she clearly needs.

It's a lovely church (shame about the religion) actually even the religion seems fine? Tanya didn't try to find out anything about it, but - Belmarniss keeps telling her not to assume everything here is as on Earth. Maybe someone figured how to have a religion promote socially cohesive, positive, inoffensive, nondividisive values without paying the devil's price. Maybe the being granting spells to priests doesn't actually create destructive incentives for anyone, or maybe they do but they're no worse in the grand scheme of things than promoting modern art. Tanya isn't trying to join this church, so she's allowed to dream.

However, man cannot live by art alone, unless he is third circle.

Tanya needs an income source. She needs to clear her name, or Akashic record or however that works. She needs to settle down in a long-term, safe, stable, respected, high-earning, socially approved and beneficial career. And to visit enough other countries and cities to decide where to do that, which feeds back into all the rest  

What order to put these in?

Judgement isn't a problem, until it is. It become a higher priority if she leads a risky life. She only needs to take risks if she wants to quickly earn a lot of money. She only needs a lot of money to pay to clear her name. It would be better to take the safe and slow approach, and especially not to commit to fight in a dangerous war which might well see her killed before she actually achieves her goal, in an army for whose conduct her only reference is Taldor (Tanya is aware it probably isn't representative, few nations are, but that just means the next one might be worse, or at least differently bad.)

On the other hand, the very slow approach - working jobs that don't need training or a grown man's strength - probably won't see her make progress on any goals beyond subsistence. There's nothing wrong with being a servant, but it probably doesn't do much good with the Judge unless he's really into humility.

A middle path would be great, if only it existed.

When in doubt, consult the experts. Tanya needs to figure out how much would be safe to tell about herself, her knowledge and talents and spells, without drawing the wrong kind of attention, and while preserving at least the appearance of a cover story. 

A talent placement agency works primarily for employers, not job-hunters, because employers are few and permanent and the agency must cultivate good relations with them even when it's technically the job-hunter who pays for the service. Venture capitalists work for themselves (or each other) but they need a short legible pitch, not a bunch of questions. Tanya needs something else. 

She doesn't know what form the something else night take yet, but that is also a question for experts, and an innocent one. Any answer would have to stand on its own merits to convince her or anyone else. In other words, she has (future) value and she needs a present service, and it's up to the market to figure out how to provide it.

So after a while entertaining the Shelynites with illusions, Tanya goes to market. Which, on Golarion, means she goes back to the Abadaran church.

"Hello. I have spells, and knowledge, not generally available here." (Half of this is obvious to anyone with Detect Magic and the other half can be inferred from that.) "I would like to consult with someone local about the most economically productive use of them. ...it doesn't have to be a very local use, I can easily move to the capital or a nearby country. However, since I am selling both knowledge and potentially abilities that noone else has at present, theft and even coercion are a worry. Anyone I consult for advice would have an incentive to sell the information to a third party. Do you have a recommendation in this situation?" 

There is also the problem that Tanya herself apparently appears untrustworthy, but one step at a time.

"...I recommend putting down four gold for a meeting with Fiducia Accorsi. Or you can go on the waiting list but his appointments only go to bids of zero on fewer than half of days."

"Who is Fiducia Accorsi and in what capacity would he be meeting with me? Is he a general advisor, a specialist in establishing trust in situations like mine, or in finding uses for novel magic? Also, how much fewer than half? I can afford to wait a few days."

"Fiducia Accorsi is the investment manager for this branch of the Church and he's qualified to keep your information confidential and authorized to handle large amounts of money and if you need more than this bank can arrange he can get you a recommendation letter to the church in Absalom, or wherever else it might make sense for you to go where Abadarans operate. You could expect the four gold back if he's suitably convinced by what you have to say that it's worth his while, to be clear, but he doesn't give out free appointments just for the asking. You might have to wait until tomorrow or the day after if you don't have the four gold but probably not longer than that."

"...I'm sorry, there may be a misunderstanding. I'm not looking for an investment into a specific venture yet, although I may need it eventually. For now I need advice about what work to perform, where I have the greatest advantage relative to existing services and who to approach about it." An investment manager has some overlap with an entrepreneur, but she won't make it 'worth his while' if she's only there to pay for his advice. Assuming he keeps to his confidentiality, so she really ought to pay him to align the incentives. Is this a reasonable use of Belmarniss's money?

"You don't need to have a specific venture in mind, if you as an individual are sufficiently promising to be likely to pay back investment in your person, and this would align you and your advisor on finding the most lucrative appropriate employment. But I can recommend someone else if you prefer to just have a confidential conversation with inexpensive advice."

Oooh. They have aligned career advisors by also making them investors! But "how does that work if I end up not needing investment at all? Say, if the best option for me is to be employed by someone else, or to start a joint venture with a local partner who can also supply capital."

"If the best option is to be employed by someone else or cofounding a business that involves you earning money at some point, so the investment agreement would cover paying back the Fiducia for those cases."

People who press you to accept loans you might not need, bundled with some other service, do not have your best interests at heart! Tanya doesn't have to accept whatever loan is proposed if she takes the meeting, but then she might not be offered truly good advice, or the banker might feel she wasted his time and take her confidentiality less seriously.

"Thank you. I don't have four gold on me," because she doesn't carry any gold, only lesser denominations, "so I'll come back later. When should I come back to check if the Fiducia is offering discounted or free slots tomorrow?"

"No-shows often don't notify the office that they're not going to appear, so for the best odds you might need to hang around all day, but if you stop in at, say, lunch, most of the advance notice we're going to get about the afternoon will be in by then."

"Alright. Thank you." 

Tanya has questions for Belmarniss. And she needs to prepare for the meeting, by deciding which of her abilities to reveal, which is also a kind of question for Belmarniss.

She worries she's putting a lot of pressure on Belmarniss here, but it's on service of efficiently stopping needing to do that, so.

She goes back to the library. Is Belmarniss busy? It's not the end of the day yet.

Reading a book, not otherwise occupied.

Tanya could read a book too, and not bother Belmarniss until the end of the day.

She reminds herself that she can only do that thanks to the daily translation spell Belmarniss is giving her, which is also an opportunity cost that she's paying on Tanya's behalf.

"Hello. Is this a good time to interrupt?"

"Good as any, what's up?"

"I went to the temple of Shelyn. They said pacifism is for the sake of your own soul, and living a violent life makes you a worse person. Which I knew already! They don't have a guide for - responsible and accountable use of necessary violence, they just recommend withdrawing from the world and leaving the necessity to others. Or fighting at the Worldwound, apparently killing demons in the belief you're doing it to protect the world has been specifically ruled a good thing. I don't know anything about how it's organized, though, or for that matter how dangerous it is."

"They also said that people who die and are judged lawful evil are set on fire forever, which sounds like a thing from home so I wanted to check with you first. ...they did say there's a lot of propaganda about it in all directions. I should probably treat it as true if it's even likely, but - I don't know what it costs me to do that, yet."

"And then I went to see the Abadrans again. I wanted to get advice on the most profitable work I could do in the short to medium term. They want me to meet with an investment manager, apparently they want to make me a loan even if I don't need one? I'm not sure how that works, it might be soft pressure because they won't give good advice if I don't take the loan or because it's meant to align our incentives. The meeting itself costs four gold and I don't know if that's reasonable to spend; they say they'll refund it if they think I'm a good enough investment opportunity, or they might give me a slot for free if someone cancels. It's your money, though."

"Of course I wouldn't tell them of all my abilities. I could ask what I can do with flight alone, for example, telescope and microscope illusions, replaying aerial images. Anyone with Detect Magic can tell I'm using some locally unknown magical tradition, so it wouldn't directly reveal much that's new, only draw attention. But that's the other reason I wanted to talk to you first. In the very worst case someone could try to attack me through you, since we are known associates." That's not something a civilian should have to bear, but Tanya can't make it not be true.