Tom Wong was working as an analyst at a bank when he received a cancer diagnosis. He spent nearly two years in treatment, unable to work. Eventually he returned to his job at the bank saying, "I welcomed it. I wanted the chance to focus on something besides cancer...I enjoyed my job [and] I appreciated the people, because they really supported me as I was going through cancer."

However after a few years he was feeling unfulfilled and decided to switch careers by accepting a position with the Yonge Street Mission, an organization that responds to the immediate needs of people experiencing poverty. "I wanted to be an example for [people] who worked so hard they’d forgotten the importance of work-life balance, to show them that working hard need not feel like hard work. Rather, the joy and purpose received from work is part of the life balance we seek."

Read more of Wong's story here.