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A dad of U.S gave up his job, quitting a massive salary, after his 10-year-old daughter gave him a 22-point list outlining all the events he missed so far during the year. As the CEO of the $2 trillion global investment fund PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian shocked the finance industry when he quit in January.

    El-Erian said it was about a year ago when he was repeatedly asking his daughter to brush her teeth, but she wasn’t listening. When he asked her why, she responded with a list of 22 milestones (里程碑)he had missed: like the first day of school and the first soccer game of the season.

“And the school year wasn’t yet over,” El-Erian wrote. “I felt awful and got defensive: I had a good excuse for each missed event! Travel, important meetings, and urgent phone call, sudden to-dos. But it dawned on me that I was missing an infinitely more important point. My work-life balance had gotten out of whack, and the imbalance was hurting my very special relationship with my daughter. I was not making enough time for her.” El-Erian explained he was struggling with the same thing so many parents do—work-life balance.

   Dads who are quitting their profit-making jobs to improve work-life balance is a subject that is getting more traction as some high-profile executive have recently written about their experiences.

    Last month, former MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wrote a blog post for Time about his decision to step down from the company’s top job. He wrote that he struggled to make time for his three children because he was flying around half a million kilometers a year for work.

    “I was not with my kids when our puppy was hit by a car, or when my son had an emergency surgery,” Schireson wrote.

    On an overnight flight to Texas he woke up in Arizona to discover the plane made an emergency landing and some traumatized（心理受到创伤的） crew members had to be replaced. He decided it was time to address（处理） his work-life balance.

    Quitting is something El-Erian and Schireson were financially able to do, but El-Erian recognizes most people don’t have this luxury. He hopes companies will pay attention to improving work-life balance for their employees.

    El-Erian now manages “a portfolio（投资组合）of part-time jobs” that don’t require as much travel. He alternates mornings with his wife taking their daughter to school and he often picks her up from school.

    “So far, it’s been the right decision for me,” he wrote. “I’m so grateful that this is providing me greater opportunity to experience key moments in my daughter’s life before they’re all too quickly gone.”

59. A U.S father El-Erian resigned from PIMCO mainly because ________.

A. his daughter has been missing him badly

B. he was getting bored with the endless flights

C. he hoped to get his daughter to listen to his advice

D. he wanted to experience his daughter’s milestones

60. What does the underlined part “most people don’t have this luxury” probably mean?

A. Most people don’t like their jobs.

B. Not all dads have a 10-year-old daughter. 

C. Most people have to work for financial security.

D. Not all dads face the problem of work-life balance.

61. What do we know about El-Erian’s life now?

   A. He now takes part-time jobs, which don’t involve any business travels.

B. He spends most of his day with his daughter.

   C. He manages to take his responsibilities as a father.

   D. He is now living an easy and relaxed life because he needn’t go to work.

62. What can be inferred from the passage?

   A. Many working parents can balance their career and family life well.

   B. CEOs are occupied with work and have no time for their family.

   C. Parents’ love cannot be replaced by money or jobs.

D. It’s never too late to see children grow up healthily.

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