英语小文章

第一篇：英语小文章

自由职业者，远不仅是在家办公

导语：自由职业的全部，就是对自由，以及自由所赖以生存的基础的一种渴望。这种自由意味着，我们必须为自己的成功或失败、快乐或不幸、富有或贫穷承担全部责任。There are two types of freelancers.On one hand are those who have been forced into self-employment as service providers, because they’ve lost their jobs and are having a hard time finding another one.On the other hand are those who would be freelancing no matter what: even if the job market were booming, and even if the Internet weren’t around to give so many opportunities to work from home.They would still be hawking their services, working in their pajamas, and being completely happy doing it.The latter are what I call freelancers at heart.They have the freelancing mindset.For them, freelancing is more than about working from home.What Freelancing Is REALLY About

I’ve only been freelancing for two years, not at all as long as many others out there.However, I recognize that true freelancers–those who do so by choice and not by circumstance–have a different way of thinking.In this post, I describe the five characteristics that make up the freelancing mindset.1.Independence Freelancers crave independence… from bosses and employers, from ―the establishment,‖ from structures and hierarchies imposed upon them by somebody else.Sure, we work for clients.In a way, they’re our bosses, because we have to meet their requirements and satisfy their expectations.Unlike bosses, clients can be chosen or rejected.We can sever relationships with a client if things aren’t working out, or if we don’t like how they’re treating us.This isn’t very easy for somebody who’s an employee.Quitting your job is not something an employee can do lightly, unless you have a lot of money stashed in the bank, or a job offer waiting in the background.Freelancers are willing to self-direct, to self-manage, and to be our own bosses–including all the responsibilities this entails.2.Adventure

The freelancing mindset is one that is open to new experiences and challenges, and is always looking for adventure.In contrast, an employee mindset wants predictability and routine.Don’t get me wrong.I’m a stickler for routine, and if I veer away from it, my productivity suffers.Yet in spite of my daily routine, I’m always working on new projects, learning about new things, meeting new clients and prospects, developing new skills, and redesigning my business.For other freelancers, part of the adventure is working in your home office one day and in a coffee shop the next.Or, working while traveling the world.Our lives are like a create-your-own-adventure book.3.Risk

True freelancers are not averse to risk.With our independence comes more responsibility, more accountability for our lives.Not having a fixed income every month, for example, is part of the risk.The risk may scare us, but it doesn’t stop us.It’s also part of the adventure.This uncertainty is more than others can bear.If I were the sole breadwinner of my family, I’m not sure I could put up with this myself.(In fact, the reason I took so long to finally plunge in my dream to be self-employed was because I wanted to make sure that my family wouldn’t go hungry if I failed.)

4.Creativity

Freelancers tend to be creative people.I say this not just because a lot of us are writers and artists and photographers.Programmers, virtual assistants and other service providers are creative in their everyday lives as well.Our work are forms of self-expression.Our daily lives are a reflection of what we believe in and stand for.We’re creative in the way we handle the daily problems and challenges of freelancing.We don’t rely on others for solutions.5.Idealism

Finally, the freelancing mindset is characterized by idealism.This is what makes some of us stick through the hardships, failures and pitfalls of freelancing.We believe in a ―better world,‖ where one doesn’t have to fit a mold to succeed in life.We believe that fancy titles are meaningless(and if not, we can give ourselves a fancy title anytime we wanted to).We believe in the freelancing lifestyle, and we’re committed to make it work.We believe we can be happy, even prosperous and downright wealthy, doing what we love.In Conclusion

Freelancing is all about the desire for more freedom and all that it entails.This freedom means we’re solely accountable for our own success or failure, for our happiness or misery, for our wealth or poverty.There are no bosses, no backstabbing co-workers, no unfair HR policies to blame.Unless you embrace this, then freelancing will suck.If you don’t believe this in your heart, then you will resent the work it takes to find clients.You’ll hate not having a regular paycheck and paid sick and vacation days.You’ll reject having to work long hours occasionally(am I the only one who worked longer hours while employed?).Some freelancers have a freelancing work arrangement, but they’re employees at heart.They’re the ones who will jump the freelancing ship at the first opportunity of a good job.I’m not saying that’s right or wrong.After all, freelancing isn’t for everyone.【参考译文】

自由职业者可以分为两种。

一种是那些失业后找工作有困难，被迫成为自由职业者，向他人提供某种服务的人。

另一种，是那些无论如何，也会选择为自己工作的人：即使就业市场非常繁荣，即使没有Internet为自由职业所提供的便利，他们仍然会选择穿着睡衣在家工作，自由自在地服务他们的客户。

后一种自由职业者是被我称为天生的自由职业者。他们拥有自由职业者的观念。对他们而言，自由职业并不仅仅是在家工作。

自由职业的真正含义——

我以自由职业者的方式工作，只有两年的时间，不象其它人那么久。然而，我已经认识到，有些人是真正的自由职业者：他们是自愿选成为自由职业者，而不是因为境遇所迫。这些人有着完全不同的思维模式。

这篇博文中，我来探讨一下构成自由职业观念的五种特征。

1.独立自主

自由职业者渴望独立......不受老板或雇主的左右，或任何由其它人强加于他们身上的东西：包括现有的管理架构，等级制度或机构体系。的确，我们为客户而工作。在某种意义上，他们就是我们的老板，我们必须满足他们的要求，满足他们的期望。不同的是，你可选择或拒绝自己的客户。如果事情进展的不顺利，或者我们不喜欢客户对待我们的态度，我们可以搞砸与他的关系。

如果你是一个雇员，就很难这样做。放弃工作并不是一个雇员随便就能做到的，除非你已经在银行有不少的存款，或者说有一份新的工作在等着你。

自由职业者希望能够自主选择自己未来的方向，并自我管理，成为自己的老板，并承担与之相应的责任。

2.冒险精神

自由职业是一种敢于面对全新体验和挑战的，并且不断寻求冒险的观念。与之相反，雇员们希望自己走上的，是一条可以预见到未来的路途。

不要误解我，我也是一个循规蹈矩的人。一旦我偏离了这一方式，工作的效率就会大大降低。

然而，除于每天的事务性工作，我还在不断接受新的项目，学习新东西，约见新客户和潜在客户，掌握新的技能，并重新设计我的业务。

对其它自由职业者而言，其中的一项体验就是今天在家办公，明天可能在隔壁的咖啡馆里。也可能你一边周游世界，一边工作赚钱。我们的生活，就象一本叫做《创造你的历险记》的书。

3.风险

自由职业者并不反对风险。与我们的独立性与生俱来的，就是责任心，以及对自己生活的把握。每月没有固定的工资，就是其中的风险之一。这种风险可能会让我们感到恐惧，但不会阻止我们。这是我们冒险经历中的一部分。

这种不确定性，超出其它人的承受限度。如果我是家庭中唯一的生活支柱，我不确定自己是否能够做出这种选择。（事实由，我之所以花了这么久，才从事自己梦想中的自由职业，就是因为想要确保我的家庭不会因为我的失败而挨饿。）4.创造力

自己职业者往往具有创造力。我之所以这样说，不仅因为我们中的许多人是作家、艺术家、摄影师，程序员、虚拟助理或其它服务供应商在他们每天的生活中，也是极具创造力的。

我们的工作，就是自我的表现形式。我们每天的生活，是我们信仰和选择的反映。我们在处理与自由职业有关的日常问题和挑战时，极具创造力。我们不会依赖别人给我们提供解决方案。5.理想主义

最后，自由职业的观念体现了一种理想主义。正是这一点，帮助我们渡过了自由职业生涯中的困难、失败和陷阱。

我们相信有一个―更好的世界‖，在那里，人们不需要按照设计好的模子来生活，以获得成功。我们相信那些花里忽哨的头衔其实毫无意义（否则的话，我们可以随时给自己一个这样的头衔，只要自己愿意就行）。我们相信自由职业者的生活方式，也尽力让这种方式成功。

我们相信自己会幸福、繁荣和真正的富足，仅靠着从事自己喜欢的事业。

结论

自由职业的全部，就是对自由，以及自由所赖以生存的基础的一种渴望。这种自由意味着，我们必须为自己的成功或失败、快乐或不幸、富有或贫穷承担全部责任。

没有老板，不能暗算自己的同事，没有不公平的人事制度可以迁怒。除非你真的喜欢自由职业，否则，你可能会感到非常糟糕。

如果你不是打心眼里相信这些，那么你会憎恨寻找客户所需要的大量工作。你会对没有定期工资、带薪病假和年假感到不快。你会对经常性的长时间工作充满抵触（在从事全职工作时，难道只有我一个人长时间地工作吗？）。

有些自由职业者，虽然拥有自由职业者的日程安排，却在本质上停留于雇员的心态。他们一有好的工作机会，就会跳下自由职业之船。我并不是说，这种做法是对是错。毕竟，自由职业并不适合所有的人。

第二篇：英语小文章

母亲节英语短文

Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years.Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.I don't remember when it first started annoying me — her hands pushing my hair that way.But it did annoy me, for they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin.Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don't do that anymore —your hands are too rough!” She didn't say anything in reply.But never again did my mother close out my day with that familiar expression of her love.Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts returned to that night.By then I missed my mother's hands, missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead.Sometimes the incident seemed very close, sometimes far away.But always it lurked, in the back of my mind.Well, the years have passed, and I'm not a little girl anymore.Mom is in her mid-seventies, and those hands I once thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.She's been our doctor, reaching into a medicine cabinet for the remedy to calm a young girl's stomach or soothe the boy's scraped knee.She cooks the best fried chicken in the world...gets stains out of blue jeans like I never could...Now, my own children are grown and gone.Mom no longer has Dad, and on special occasions, I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her.So it was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly run across my face to brush the hair from my forehead.Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my brow.In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night my young voice complained, “Don't do that anymore — your hands are too rough!” Catching Mom's hand in hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night.I thought she'd remember, as I did.But Mom didn't know what I was talking about.She had forgotten — and forgiven — long ago.That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found 此文章为摘抄

第三篇：英语小文章

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”

“Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man.“Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

“That’s none of your business.Why do you ask such a thing?” the man said angrily.“I just want to know.Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?” pleaded the little boy.“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”

“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down.Looking up, he said, “Daddy, may I please borrow $10?”

The father was furious, “If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed.Think about why you are being so selfish.I work hard every day for such childish behavior.”

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions.How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.“Are you asleep, son?” He asked.“No daddy, I’m awake,” replied the boy.“I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier,” said the man, “It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you.Here’s the $10you asked for.”

The little boy sat straight up, smiling.“Oh, thank you daddy!” He yelled.Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again.The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.“Why do you want more money if you already have some?” the father grumbled.“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,” the little boy replied.“Daddy, I have $20 now.Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow.I would like to have dinner with you.”

一个人工作到很晚，带着疲惫与愤怒回到家里，却发现5岁大的儿子正在门口等他。

“爸爸，我可以问你一个问题吗？”

“当然，什么问题？”

“爸爸，你一个小时赚多少钱？”

“这不关你的事。怎么问这样一个问题？”父亲生气地说道。

“我只是想知道。请告诉我吧，你一个小时赚多少钱？”小男孩乞求地说。

“真想知道就告诉你吧，我一小时赚20美元。”

“噢，”男孩说着，低下了头。接着，他抬起头来问：“爸爸，我可以借你10美元钱吗？”

父亲生气了：“如果你问这个问题，只是为了借钱买无聊的玩具或其他没用的东西，那就赶紧回你的房间睡觉去。想想你怎么会这么自私。我每天工作这么辛苦，得到的竟是这样幼稚愚蠢的举动。”

小男孩静静地走进自己的房间，关上了门。这个人坐下后，更加为这个男孩的问题生气了。这孩子怎么敢问这样的问题，就为了借些钱呢？大约过了一个小时，他才平静下来了，开始想：也许他真的需要这10美元买什么东西呢，他并不是经常要钱花。

于是这个人走到小男孩的门口，打开了门。

“你睡了吗，孩子？”他问。

“没有呢，爸爸。我醒着，”男孩回答。

“我在想，可能刚才我对你太严厉了，”父亲说，“经过漫长的一天，我把怒气都发到你身上了。这是你要的10美元。”

小男孩坐直了身子，笑了：“噢，谢谢爸爸！”他忍不住呼喊起来。接着，他伸手到枕头底下，拿出一把皱巴巴的钞票。看到男孩已经有钱了，父亲又忍不住要发火。小男孩慢慢地数着钱，然后抬头看着父亲。

“既然你已经有钱了，为什么还要更多钱？”父亲粗鲁地抱怨说。

“因为我的钱不够，不过现在够了，”小男孩回答，“爸爸，我现在有20美元了，我可以买你一小时的时间吗？请你明天早点下班，我想和你一起吃晚饭。”

第四篇：英语小文章

While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great

success in many states ?a at least in getting people off welfare.It's estimated

that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been out in half.But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour.The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent——twice the national average.For advocates(代言人)for the poor, that's an indication much more needs to be done.“More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn，a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996，a greater percentage of single, femalea2headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.but for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as

well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.“Welfare was a poison.It was a toxin(毒素)that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfarea2reform policy analyst.“The reform is changing the moral climate in lowa2income communities.It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic(道德观)，which is much more important.”

Mr.Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.

第五篇：英语小文章

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the road.If only men would listen.You are standing under the most famous neon lights in the centre of London, waiting to cross the road.Suddenly the traffic stops.You hear the distant sounds of cheering, clapping and shouting.Then like a multi-coloured train, 2,000 people with wheels on their feet go past you.You have just saw the London Skate, a twice weekly roller-skate event that attracts thousands of people.London Skate is a completely free tour of the streets of London--the only condition is that you go along on roller-skates.It lasts between two and three hours and by the end of it you have skated between 10 and 12 miles.In my opinion, the schoolwork now being assigned to students is too heavy.While it is true that students need to study, they need other things as well if they are to grow into healthy and well-rounded adults.They should be allowed more time for play.Playing is not wasting time, as some think.It gives them physical exercise, and also exercise their imagination.Lost time is never found again.This is something which I learned very clearly last semester.I spent so much time fooling around that my grades began to suffer.I finally realized that something had to be done.It was time for a change.Now I have a new plan for using my time wisely.I have set my alarm clock ahead half an hour.This will give me a head start on the day.I have also decided to keep a log of what I do and when I do it.Looking back on what I’ve done will give me some ideas on how to reorganize my time.I was responsible for answering the telephone and taking the message.I worked eight hours a day, six days a week.The work was not difficult nor heavy to me and I guess I did well.The most delighted thing was perhaps that I could spend the money I earned all by myself.Table-tennis is an ideal game us because it brings the whole body into action.It strengthens our muscles, expands our lungs, promotes the circulation of the blood, and causes a healthy action of the skin.Besides, it is very amusing and does not cost us much money.Table-tennis is very moderate;it is not so rough as football.It is an indoor game and can be played even on rainy days.Thus, it is my favorite kind of exercise.One April 1st , a country bus was going along a winding road when it slowed down and stopped。Then the driver turned to the passengers with a worried look on his face and said this poor bus is getting old。It isn't going as well as it used to。there is only one thing to do if we want to go home today。I will count three。I want you all to lean forward suddenly as hard as you can。This should get the bus started again but if it doesn’t’ t，I am afraid there is nothing else I can do。Now，all of you lean back as far as you can in your seats and get ready。

When making the study plan, we should remember two things.First, be realistic.Don’t try to do too many things.Second, a good study plan should be flexible.We may make some small changes on a weekly basis but follow the same pattern.Let’s be the master of time, start out plan now.31 One day when women's dresses were on sale at the Far East Department Store, a dignified middle-aged man decided to get his wife a piece.But he soon found himself being battered by women.Then, with head lowered and arms flailing, he plowed through the crowed.“Can't you act like a gentleman?” “I have been acting like a gentleman for an hour.From now on, I am acting like a lady.”

Mr.Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by air.He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, so when he got on to the plane, he looked for a window seat.He found all of them had already had been taken except for one.There was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one, and Mr.Robinson was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window;but, anyhow, he at once went towards it.33 I have said it a hundred times, we need team work，always seek the best in others.The purpose of this trip , is to train our team in a real situation and to test our new members.Those deserving special praise are the Little Leaf and Four Eyes.Although new to the trade, they try hard, they have not only surpass themselves, but even the old guard here。

When Tom Howard was seventeen years old he was as tall as his father, so he began to borrow Mr.Howard's clothes when he wanted to go out with his friends in the evening.Mr.Howard did not like this, and he always got very angry when he found his son wearing any of his things.