It’s been a little over a month since I ended my tenure at one of the best advertising companies in the game. Since then I have extended my freelance business to a larger client base while starting work on a contract basis at Jet Cooper, a the user experience agency in Toronto, and want to share my thoughts on the transition.

After completing a recent project that featured a parallax homepage I found out that two CSS properties don’t work well together. The parallax effect was based on the notion that background images would remain in place with a fixed position while stretching to fit its container. Unfortunately it CSS alone won’t let it happen.

It’s true, after nearly two years at Taxi I have decided to leave in pursuit of other ventures. My coworkers showed a number of different reactions after the news broke. Some were shocked to see me go, a few were (jokingly) mad at me, and others were very professional about it. One thing each encounter had in common was that they wished me well, and asked the same two questions: “Where are you heading next?” and “Why are you leaving?”