How to reject job I applied to?
Hi Guys,
So here's the story - my current position is quite fine and I can still develop here, but I saw an internal job offer in a parallel team, that looked like something interesting where I could gain some new valuable experience in a slightly different area, so I applied.
Unfortunately, after an interview with a manager, while it's still a role where I could learn something new, I'm not so keen on it anymore, as it looks kind of boring long term.
The real problem is that I'm in the middle of a project, that would last until the end of the year, I honestly don't want to leave my colleagues in the lurch, especially that I would stay in the same company and still slightly cooperate with them. If this role appeared after the project I would take it to gain some new skills and most likely look for something new in a year or two. But in the current situation it seems kind of risky to abandon the project like this, my current boss most likely won't be making much issues, but I'd feel kinda bad with it and I'm afraid that it wouldn't look good for higher managers.
I have already raised the topic in the job interview marking that maybe we could find some solution with me working on both teams 50/50 or something until the project is over. Nevertheless, they invited me for the next meeting.
So, long sorry short, I don't want to close the doors for any future recruitments for this position, but at this point, I don't think it's worth of such a risky move. Do you have any idea how i could tackle this?
Thanks!