I help people when I can and purpossely don’t tell anybody about it. (Not even my husband, although I’m itching to tell the story.) I “offer it up” like a Catholic though I’m not one. It doesn’t count if I tell. Money in the bank, in a way, for when I cash in. The only ivestment I can afford to make.
That’s already required by law… sheesh! What’s vacation like, is what I want to know!
I’d go Lone Ranger but would need a backup team of people able to sign their name for those cases where obtaining jail time for any culprits would be a possibility.
This I have found as part of the issue with lone ranger approach, a person may desire to thank you, or even be able to help you in a way you didn’t even know you needed, but you have blocked that opportunity. You have also made yourself a bit superhuman, almost godlike in such a approach, and the person you helped may not think reciprocating is even possible for them as they are a ‘mear mortal’, if you give them a chance to get to know you they may see that I am just a person like they are and therefor they can help others as I helped them.
So by sticking around it gives them the chance to return the favor or pay it forward, lone rangering seems to hinder both.
This goes into appearing as a god in such a situation, not needed resources, the truth is I do need the resources - as I am a needy human like everyone else and while I never charge for my help I am open to receive and have received but only if their heart motivates them to do so.
Your thread is very interesting because this is what I am starting doing in a large way and believe this is the path for me and I will be supported by gratitude of those I can help. Not for Rhymer Enterprises so to speak, and if you know me, you know that I believe that angels are guiding me in the way you set this OP up. As such I am looking at traveling the world, meeting wonderful people, touching and healing hearts.
Or at least that’s the plan as I understand it 
Peace
Guess I’m a little less Lone Rangery in that sense. I have advanced weapons and can time travel. My targets won’t be doing jail time, at least in this plane of existence.
As long as the pay is good, I’m good. No “The Three Amigos” looking longingly at the money they offer, needing it desperately, but being expected to turn it down.
Hell, I probably wouldn’t even tell people my name. I might call myself something like “The Doctor” or something… 
Lone Ranger… not Profit Monger.
You say this like it’s a drawback. 
I’d probably take a variety of approaches depending on the situation. My first instinct is not to reveal myself as a techno-superhero, so I’ll either try to set up the situation so I look like a normal Jane who just happened to be there, or get the job done and be gone before people can start asking questions. If I can teleport to work I’ll be looking for a new place to live, so I may accept some invitations to get to know the community.
I have a specific and very personal empathy for people stuck in abusive situations, so that’d probably be my specialty. That’s a hard one to handle with or without technology, though - for kids it’d probably be a multi-week project to get CPS involved and make sure they’re going to stay involved, and there’s extremely little outsiders can do when adults choose to stay in an abusive relationship. Do I get a never-ending bag of gold to help people who are staying in a bad situation for financial reasons? I might look for abusive scumbags who are crossing criminal lines (related or unrelated to the abuse) and work on getting them locked up. When I start feeling burned out, there’ll be a lot of rescuing abused animals and returning lost pets, I think. And/or breaking up muggings.
The temptation would be to start arranging fatal ‘accidents’ for the worst abusers. Ugh. Probably a good thing I don’t have that option available to me, though it’d be an interesting scenario to torture a book character with.
I have directly saved three people’s live in separate situations before just by being in the right place at the right time. Two were imminent drowning victims and one was a severe car accident. There have been a few other saves that may or may or not have resulted in death but there is no way to know that but I certainly got rid of the threat and helped the situation. I always appreciated the thanks at the end but I never made a big deal out of it and I doubt any of them know my name. I just give the details of the accident and walk away as soon as they are safely loaded into the ambulance. I mentioned it to people later but not much.
I prefer Lone Ranger approach. It isn’t that big of a risk for me to jump in the water and save a person who is drowning or force open a car door and help the person breath until other help arrives. I am at least as big and strong as a typical firefighter and a great swimmer plus I have good first responder training. Other people do that stuff professionally so I can do the same when the opportunity presents itself. I don’t think I would be quite up to the level of say a SEAL Team 6 who had to take out Osama Bin Laden but I will always be the first to jump in and help someone in distress as long as the danger to me isn’t that severe.
“Oh, look! It’s that nice man from the motor club!” [/GD]
You have a Time Machine.
I would take my cue from The Weeping Angels. Only they don’t send people far enough. I wouldn’t want any chance they could profit from their knowledge.
Waking up naked on the edge of Ancient Rome, on the other hand…
Hm, in that case I’d be more inclined to send them forward in time, I think - less chance of paradoxically changing the future, and near-zero chance of them being able to profit from it. It might even be possible to drop them off in a society that handles rehabbing or at least restraining people like that more easily.
However, that still leaves the abuse victim(s) with a lot of loose ends - they don’t know if the person might ever be back, for starters. A corpse simplifies things. It also has the bonus of making sure that person doesn’t abuse anyone else ever again.
Ugh. As rewarding as the life of a wandering do-gooder sounds, I think I’d rather not wind up with the ability to kill off people I don’t approve of with impunity.
Lone Ranger, I think.
Being English I find doing good highly embarrassing, get in there, do good and leg it before any one recognises you. Dangerous work, but someone has to do it.
If we accept the ludicrous scenario of me abandoning my mercenary lifestyle to work for hippies, who knows how I would do it. But if we don’t want to fight the hypothetical…
Staying anywhere for too long gets boring, so I wouldn’t be able to stick around for the locals to organize a proper ‘Thank You Mighty Hero Festival’. And my inner crazy likes the idea of showing up unexpectedly, fixing a problem, then immediately disappearing, without saying a word to anyone. Maybe I could arrange it so that when I teleport away a cake appears. Yes, a cake, an exploding cake! Not a big, kill people explosion, just a small, goofy, frosting and batter everywhere explosion. Just imagine the aftermath of that; bewildered, frosting covered locals standing around saying ‘What the hell just happened?’ It would certainly make the world a slightly stranger place.
But it’s still not wild and chaotic enough to lure away from being a techno-barbarian warlord.
I figure the longer I stick around, the greater the chance of someone swiping my stuff.