Sorry for formatting, on mobile. Started a new position a couple years back, was told by hr that there'd be growth potential.
From the get go I caught on quickly, to the point of being offered higher level projects. I exceeded expectations on everything I did. I asked to learn about more complex systems and then expressed an interest in moving up…anyway, long story short, my boss was supposedly unable to convince higher ups to promote me. I'm not convinced it was ever presented to those people, but whatever. Review time came, I got “exceeds expectations” for the entire thing.
I am still bitter. I want to stop going the extra mile without coming across like I'm doing just that. But really I just need help to stop continually offering to do more in some misguided attempt to be worthy of a promotion that will probably never come.