To ask for your help figuring out how I can get some income in fast

Multilingual jobs can be hard to come by, but when they do pop up, they're often quite desperate. A few years ago, I got a bilingual French-English sales job with no sales experience. They said I was the only person they interviewed who actually spoke both languages when tested (and I'm sure your French as a translator is much better than mine!)

There's a real shortage of language teachers in the UK. It may be worth applying to the assistant positions you've seen, even without experience. If you're interested in retraining, there are fairly generous government grants available while you train as a language teacher, but I'm not sure you'd be able to start this until next summer.

Gardeners in the SE charge £35 an hour. Thats more than cleaners.
Dog walkers are increasingly in demand.

Private tutoring

You are underestimating your skills. Look for admin roles they pay a bit more than retail.
My niece moved to Leeds she sent a lot of cv’s online, she had no luck with them so she walked around the industrial estates introducing herself and handing out her CV, one of the companies weren’t actively looking for staff, they were impressed by her approach and offered her a decent salary for an admin role.

My former neighbour (she’s now relocated abroad funnily enough) used to do something called “teacher hosting”. Essentially these French people, usually teens but sometimes adults, would stay with her for a fortnight at a time and do a mix of “table top teaching” to learn English, and sight-seeing with her. A day would look like, breakfast, a couple of hours of formal-ish language, go out to a local attraction and lunch, then another couple of language hours. With a young person it might be something simple like baking a cake which would involve counting, measuring etc in English as part of it.

She got paid well for it - it was initially through an agency who take a cut of the fee, but I know some of her clients were siblings from the same family who she cut out the agency with and dealt direct with the parents. She used to do language tutoring with mainly adults too.

I do AI training work via a few different companies, and they are often looking for bilingual workers. This is one that's being advertised at the moment for fluent French/English speakers (this is a referral link, btw, but feel free to search for Mercor if you'd rather not click a random link): https://t.mercor.com/e5NiD

There are some hoops to jump through with interviews, competency tests etc, but they are legit and the pay can be pretty good if you can get selected for projects.

Well they were a week ago…

Temping for royal mail. I loved it

They are not advertising at the moment.

@Portmoresorry to jump on but am thinking of stepping away from my career project management job for a career in retail. Like the OP I am really personable and just think I’d thrive in a career where I meet and speak to people everyday, whilst being able to utilise my other experience. Do you ever employ career changers? And is it easy to work up, as my only concern is starting salary.

I work for a company that periodically hires linguists, particularly European languages, for customer service roles (high end products, high end service). We struggle to fill the vacancies because it’s in a really unpopular part of the country, so they are pretty well paid.
You haven’t said where you are based (I don’t think) but if you are willing to do a national search and move area, there are probably quite a few roles at companies like ours

EasyJet are advertising that they want older cabin crew. Do you fancy that?

https://outlier.ai/languages/de-de

https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=german+speaking&l=&sc=0kf%3Aattr%28DSQF7%29%3B&from=searchOnDesktopSerp&vjk=8a7128f9d720727a

https://uk.indeed.com/jobs?q=german+speaking&l=&sc=0kf%3Aattr%28DSQF7%29%3B&from=searchOnDesktopSerp&vjk=71a3f617359942f0

send your cv to https://www.transperfect.com/

Have a look at the civil service jobs website
for admin type roles. Apply for areas that they find it difficult to recruit for (probation, prison service).

Another vote for applying somewhere like language line, it’s still very well used

As well as this, translating for courts/solicitors/police (at least in the UK) is worth looking into. Probably in other countries too (not sure where you are, OP)
Multinational companies often need translators or interpreters (I'm aware they're not the same thing) (I used to be 'industry-adjacent', let's say)

I wouldn't rule out retail. I'm a manager in retail & where 'older' candidates apply they usually score really well. Teenagers are recruited because they are the ones who apply.

Drivers are constantly in demand. Supermarket delivery drivers get a bit more than minimum wage & it's fairly easy work, you obviously have to deal with the public but usually one at a time which is okay. Can be some heavy lifting.

Could you do language tutoring for students maybe?

I'd be cautious with this. I have done matched betting in the past, and picked up an easy couple of thousand on my bus commute over a few months. It is guaranteed money, and you will see a lot of success stories.

BUT - you need a starting pot, and I personally wouldn't put in any money i couldn't afford to be held up in an ombudsman despute for a few months. Bookies are getting quicker and quicker at spotting the patterns and blocking you, sometimes with your balance in their account, chancing it that you won't complain. Responsible gambling regulations are reducing the number of offers also... I'm all for taking money off the bookies, but it's maybe not for you, at this time.

Tutoring?

If you have a university in your city, have a look for roles supporting students with things like notetaking. Some disabled students gets funding for this and suitable help is hard to find.

Similarly, support worker roles for disabled people at work which are funded via Access to Work. Includes things like taking notes, making materials accessible etc.

Schools always struggle to find governors' clerks. It's very part time, but you could fit around other thing.

If you like and are good with kids, that gives more options with your language skills. Mothers' help or afterschool nanny for a French or German family? I know a few people who've taken on people who don't have previous formal childcare experience for their language skills, particularly if say they're wfh but need someone to entertain their child. Maybe a preschool parent/child French or German class - these are popular in my area.