To maximise staying under the radar, probably fabricate. You'd not be amazingly rich, but you could establish a decent living with a lot of free time. If you want to be amazingly rich and you squint hard enough at fabricate and what tool proficiency count mean in the modern world you can probably make some bank with a bit of study of chemistry or engineering. Being able to magically create complex drugs or something is going to draw attention though.
Don't forget to go metamagic adept so you can cast them without any indication that it is you twice a day! Or multiclass into sorcerer!
Prestidigitation, and a residency in Las Vegas. David Copperfield was able to buy a private island, imagine what I could do with real magic!
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Learn charm
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Use it to get hired as the pastor of a megachurch
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Use it on the congregation
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Use Augury to slightly improve my odds in online poker. My winnings are legal and legitimate, I don't have to leave the house so no one can tell I'm doing magic, and there's nothing to notice other than I'm unusually good at the game.
EDIT: On second thought, online sports betting is a thing now. I'm changing my answer to that.
Dont augury take a while to cast ? You gonna need to find games that are slower
1 minute. Might be a lil slow for online poker, I wouldn't know, but it's not like I have to use it every hand either.
Fun fact, its kinda of the gimick in the movie Next, if the hand takes too long he cant see how it goes
You could get some great use out of fabricate and proficiency in something related to computer architecture.
Legend Lore could equally grant you valuable knowledge to sell, and similarly half the divination spells could make you a very successful gambler.
Wish is an easy one, since it can be used to cast most of the other spells talked about here
Clone, immortality without any of the normal downsides (I can choose to die still and don't need souls or any bs like that)
Identify and go pawn shop hunting and the like
Really most divination spells would be solid for stock market manipulation
Enchantment spells for manipulating the corporate ladder, or getting into politics or something (mass suggestion in the really any political nexus, geus for more targeted things, modify memory, etc).
Healing and revivification spells and sell my services to the elite, bring back the dead, speak to loved ones, etc. Clone works well here too, especially since it has age manipulation.
Not very experienced, but I'd probably True Polymorph dirt/Steve Huffman into some gold and sell it.
Plan 1: Raulothim's Psychic Lance. By the time I get to take that spell, I must have had at least one ASI so I'll just take metamagic adept for subtle spell. I just have to know the name of the target and be within 120 feet of them (240 if the second metamagic option I take is distant spell), and it's pretty close to a guaranteed kill vs. a commoner, no murder weapon, and nothing showing that I was there.
Plan 2: Clone. Claim that it's some revolutionary stem cell rejuvenation therapy and sell it to the super-rich. (Though I might make it fail accidentally if it's someone like Murdoch or Kissinger. Payment in advance, no guarantees, and I'll do it on international waters.)
Mending, open a phone repair business. People would just think I’m really good at my job!
Also: Borrowed Knowledge + Fabricate
So does nobody read the spell description for Mending, or...
This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as broken chain link, two halves of a broken key
How many people are neatly snapping their phone into two halves?