【篇一】300字英语短篇文章欣赏
The Joy 0f SOHO: Making a Life While Making a Living
A Better Choice
The next time you overhear a friend or coworker chattering excitedly about SOHO, don'tassume that they are talking about New York. In today's business world SOHO refers to "SmallOffice/Home Office," one of today's biggest explosions in the economy. The home-basedbusiness has been born out of necessity. In an era when large corporations always think ofdownsizing, what are your other choices?
Your choices are usually limited: find a lucrative niche in the small business world, stand in lineat Unemployment, or accept a cut in pay and benefits.In this economic climate, where cost-cutting measures are the group of the day, setting up a home office on your own may just bethe ticket to beat the odds. So now, to configure your own small office, home office set-up canbe a breeze.
How to Start
Let's congratulate on your decision to start your own business. But where do you go fromhere? Paper clips, memo pad, phone and table ?almost but not quite. One of the faultscommitted by home-based business owners otherwise known as a small office home office isthat they fail to consider the possibilities of expansion.
It is fine to start working from the kitchen table but what happens when things start to takeoff and you still do not want to have an office space? where do you place the home office? Ifyou have the space, I highly suggest a room unto itself. This permits you to close the door andseparate your personal life from business. You are able to leave everything you are working onright where it is instead of shaving to clean-up for dinner or to go to bed. These clean-upsteps can lead to problems down the road. where you anchor the home office is important foryour future success. A corner in the living room, bedroom or attic is preferable if you do nothave a room solely for your business. Reasons for the separation include fewer distractions andthe ability to think and focus more clearly.
And you may have to have one or two clients come to your "office" in the lifetime of yourbusiness. Even though it is your home, you want to present the best professional atmospherepossible, which is very important if you have people working with you. Their productivity isimportant to your bottom line. Invest in the appropriate chairs, tables, lighting and ventilationbefore you invest in the paper clips and the stapler. If you are not comfortable, neither you noryour employees will stay there and finish the job. Bottom line: Your employees don't want tointeract or become a part of your family issues. It is fine to have employees in your home butjust make sure you supply them with the best working atmosphere possible.
So, be a boss of your own and be a happy SOHO. Are You Ready?
【篇二】300字英语短篇文章欣赏
Country Spring
One spring I went a walking tour in the country. It was a glorious spring. Not the sort of spring they give us in these miserable times, under this shameless government -a mixture of east wind ，blizzard, snow, rain, fog, frost, hail, sleet and thunder-storms, but a sunny, blue-skyed, joyous spring, such as we used to have regularly every year when I was a young man, and things were different.
It was an exceptionally beautiful spring, even for those golden days; and as I wandered through the waking land, and saw the dawning of the coming green, and watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge , deepening each day beneath the kisses of the sun, and looked up at the proud old mother trees, dandling their numerous baby buds upon their strong fond arms holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he passed laughing by, and marked the primrose yellow creep across the carpet of the woods, and saw the new flush of the field and saw the new light on the hills, and heard the new-found gladness of the birds, and heard from wood and farm and meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things, wondering to find themselves alive, and smelt the freshness of the earth, and felt the promise in the air, and felt a strong hand in the wind, my spirit rose within me.
Spring had come to me also, and stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope. I, too, was part of nature, and it was spring! Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart. Bright flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots. I felt new strength in all my limbs. New blood was running through my veins. Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain. As I walked, nature came and talked beside me, and showed me the world and myself, and the ways of God seemed clearer.
【篇三】300字英语短篇文章欣赏
Country Spring
One spring I went a walking tour in the country. It was a glorious spring. Not the sort of spring they give us in these miserable times, under this shameless government -a mixture of east wind ，blizzard, snow, rain, fog, frost, hail, sleet and thunder-storms, but a sunny, blue-skyed, joyous spring, such as we used to have regularly every year when I was a young man, and things were different.
It was an exceptionally beautiful spring, even for those golden days; and as I wandered through the waking land, and saw the dawning of the coming green, and watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge , deepening each day beneath the kisses of the sun, and looked up at the proud old mother trees, dandling their numerous baby buds upon their strong fond arms holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he passed laughing by, and marked the primrose yellow creep across the carpet of the woods, and saw the new flush of the field and saw the new light on the hills, and heard the new-found gladness of the birds, and heard from wood and farm and meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things, wondering to find themselves alive, and smelt the freshness of the earth, and felt the promise in the air, and felt a strong hand in the wind, my spirit rose within me.
Spring had come to me also, and stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope. I, too, was part of nature, and it was spring! Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart. Bright flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots. I felt new strength in all my limbs. New blood was running through my veins. Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain. As I walked, nature came and talked beside me, and showed me the world and myself, and the ways of God seemed clearer.
