self-made man
someone who comes from low origins and against all odds, breaks out of his inherited social position, climbs up the social ladder and creates a new ident-ty for himself.
benjamin franklin was a self-made man, who rose from being a son of a candle-maker to the one of the founding fathers of the united states of america.
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