transcription work can be done from home indeed, and i know of a few who did helpdesk work from home while i was in college.
they'd be in the common room playing Xbox with their headsets on, and if called turn around to their laptop behind them in order to help.
Now, becouse this wasn't in a native-english country, you get your non-english language proficiency for free, and in holland, we learn 2 others in school, so that's english and 3 more languages which you can bring to the table.
if you only know english, it'll be harder, since there are so many who can do that, and those with non-english languages also have english, so it's a 2-for-1; hard to beat that deal