welladverb
Despite her obvious limitations as a singer, she has done well for herself.
For someone whose parents never encouraged her career, she did quite well for herself.
Carlos has managed to do well for himself in a challenging profession.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
A game
accomplish
achieve
acquit
actualize
bear
get through
get to/reach first baseidiom
go faridiom
go from strength to strengthidiom
go into orbitidiom
kill
pan
rise
scale the heightsidiom
scrape through (something)
sew something up
slam dunk
smash itidiom
stand out