It your actually talking about online work, it's a world infested by scam artists, most the legit work you would find is short term freelance, in which you act as an independent contractor.
If you have some marketable design, programming or writing-translation skills you might find short term work at one of the freelance worker marketplaces like Odesk.com and Elance.com
Elance.com alone reports their (mostly skilled) workers earned $285 Million in 2013
https://www.elance.com/q/online-employme...
Odesk.com has about 420 different qualification tests which can help someone with no track record of completed projects to win bids
https://www.odesk.com/tests
