In changing jobs in HR, the greener grass on the other side may be fake!

Here's an eye-opening story you may identify with.

Awhile back, I had coffee with my cousin, a Compensation & Benefits Manager.

We met after she had left her job for a few more dollars and the promise of "better opportunities."

After six months, she quit again and returned to back to her old company and her old job.

And she was thrilled they took her back.

Frustrated, she found out that the new job wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

"I didn't have the MENTORING that I had in the old job."

"I didn't feel like I was on a TEAM."

"I didn't have the RELATIONSHIPS."

"I wasn't working on the same EXCITING PROJECTS."

"I missed all that. In that new job, for six freakin' months, I was just sitting alone in my work station, crunching numbers and producing comp and bonus reports all day."

"And I recognized that I left for a job that I thought was going to make me happy, fulfill me & and make me grow...and I realized, I already had that!"

The point: "The grass isn't always greener."

The best opportunities are sometimes HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT -- right where you are.

Just sayin'.