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In essence, I'm looking for an equivalent of the European "hitting the ceiling". The context of usage will be similar to "I decided to be a cook aid, but I quickly started hitting the ceiling prompting my decision to become a cook".

I tried my "google-fu" but the only references I was able to find were to a definition of "hitting the ceiling" as "being angry".

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  • I'm not sure "hitting the ceiling" is exclusively European. I've heard it elsewhere as well.
    – Isabel Archer
    Commented May 28, 2020 at 0:03
  • You mean to say that there isn't much more to learn, not that "there's nothing much to learn."
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented May 28, 2020 at 4:39

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Sounds like the cook aide outgrew their job almost immediately, i.e., hit a learning/personal development ceiling. So, I would suggest as an answer the idiom to outgrow one's job, and obvious variants required by the context.

If you Google outgrow a job, you'll get tons of hits -- and advice on how to tell you've outgrown your job and what to do about it.

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