For more than four years, Kevin Pearson began his working week by leaving Sooke for Vancouver and ended it thinking about the trip home. “There was always that light at the end of the tunnel: Friday night, I’ll be back in Sooke,” he said. The commute was part of a 35-year career with Canada Post that took Pearson from repairing machinery as a Red Seal millwright to senior management. At one point, he was responsible for a Vancouver operation wit…