The concept is that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, the frog is going to say "Holy shit that's hot!" and jump out. Makes sense right? Well, that same frog, if you place it in cool or lukewarm water and slowly heat the water to a boil, the frog will remain complacent not noticing the subtle changes until he's boiled to death.

The same concept applies to business, in fact they teach it in business school. Offer your employees a calm relaxed environment with good benefits and such, then you can slowly make changes the subtly screw them and they won't notice, or even if they do its not enough to really do anything about. If you make drastic changes, your people will jump ship.

Well the water is starting to feel a bit uncomfortable. The question is, how uncomfortable do I need to be before I jump ship? Miss feels that I'm ready to move on. I've been with this company going on four years now. From my perspective, I don't think I will have the opportunity to advance any further. I have a master's degree that's not being utilized.

One of the main problem's I'm having is that the group I work with is one of the best I ever have. We just click extremely well. Each of us in Security have our own specialty and we each know enough of the other's job to back each other up. There is no real bickering among us, no drama, no backstabbing and we always have each other's backs. It would be really hard to find this in another group.

Thus the dilemma…What should my next step be? I know I need to move on. I'm just unsure if I'm ready yet. But I don't want to get boiled in the process.