bootstrapper

an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired he was the proverbial bootstrapper, having worked his way up from the mail room to the corner office Synonyms go-getter, go-ahead, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, live wire, powerhouse, rustler, self-starterRelated Words eager beaver; achiever, comer, doer, enterpriser; he-man, individualistNear Antonyms dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, putterer, trifler; goldbrick, malingerer, procrastinator, shirker, slacker; drone, lazybones, sluggard; dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud; ignorer, ne'er-do-well, neglecter; daydreamer, dreamer; dropout, quitter