The Saga of Allegra Burton

July 2022

Meet Allegra Burton. She’s on her way to her internship at Fisker Management and Consulting. Not many college students do internships after their freshman year, but Allegra, or Allie, isn’t your normal “fresh-more”. Allie comes from a family of high achievers. Her mother is a surgeon, her father is an architect, and her older brother just finished his PhD in mathematics and landed a high paying job in finance. True to her genetics Allie is also a high achiever. She had graduated valedictorian of her high school class, and was accepted into a prestigious women’s college. So doing an internship as a 19 year old wasn’t abnormal to Allie, in fact it’s exactly what she wanted to do.

Unlike her parents and her brother, Allie had decided to forgo the STEM world and instead opted to dive head first into the world of marketing. Though math and science had come naturally to her, she found both subjects rather drab and boring. However, marketing was a unique challenge for Allie that seemed to scratch an itch that she wanted desperately to pacify. Numbers were easy to figure out, but deciphering humans and coercing them into buying a products that they didn’t need was a juicy challenge.

August 2025

Fisker Management and Consulting had hired that plucky intern that first walked through their doors in June of 2022. Allie had done two more internships at Fisker while she was in college, and had thoroughly impressed the CEO during her brief time with the company. In fact, during the summer of 24’ they didn’t even treat her like an intern. She was given a couple clients, and she worked with them like she was full-time staff at Fisker.

Only a couple months into her tenure at Fisker, and Allie was already impressing the higher ups. She had quickly adapted to the new ai tools that were flooding the industry, and her tenacious work ethic set her apart from the rest of the staff. Allie seemed to thrive on long hours and the daily grind. It was in her genetics after all. Having watched her mother and father toil away at their careers, Allie didn’t think much of the 12 hour days that she regularly pulled. In fact, she felt like the long hours helped to justify career choice to the rest of her family. Sure marketing wasn’t the same thing as designing a building or repairing an ACL, but she was working her ass off and making sacrifices just like her parents did.

October 2033

The plucky intern turned spunky new hire had officially become a grizzled veteran of the marketing world. The ai that Allie had so eagerly adopted at the start of her tenure at Fisker had hollowed out the marketing industry. One by one the staff members had been let go or pushed into an early retirement. Fisker at it’s largest had been 200+ employees strong, but now the head count at been whittled down to 35 individuals. Allie insatiable work ethic had helped her stay ahead of the ai tsunami that had decimated the industry, but it hadn’t helped her break through the proverbial glass ceiling at Fisker.

Now 8 years into her career Allie spent most of her time on the road traveling from client to client. The one thing ai hadn’t been able to replace was good ole fashioned face to face human interaction. Clients enjoyed Allie’s quick wit and nimble social skills, but spending 90% of the week on the road was beginning to take a toll on Allie. She had put everything into her career, and as she approached 30 years old all she had to show for it was a small studio apartment and a couple of good job emails from the CEO who had recruited her to Fisker 8 years earlier.

November 2033

The most pivotal moment of Allie’s life occurred in Bangor, Maine the week of Thanksgiving 2033. Allie had taken a last minute client meeting as a winter storm was rapidly approaching the east coast. With limited flights available, Allie chose to fly into Boston and then drive 4.5 hours up to Bangor. After Allie arrived in Bangor the storm hit, and the client backed out of the meeting. Stuck in snow coverage Bangor with not much to work on, Allie decided to venture around the neighborhood that her bed and breakfast was in.

Surprisingly Allie stumbled upon an estate sale that was going on despite the snow. Surprised at how little the snow seemed to slow down the locals, Allie decided to do something a bit out of character. She popped into the estate sale and began to peruse the boxes of junk. There wasn’t much that peaked Allie’s interest, but she did buy a box of photos and trinkets for $10. She figured she could dig through the box back at the bed and breakfast, and the handful of nice trinkets and interesting photos would easily fit in her carry-on bag.

Back at the bed and breakfast Allie began digging through the carboard box and setting aside the items that she was going to keep. At the very bottom of the box, buried under layers of old photos and trinkets, was something wrapped in packing paper. Allie quickly began peeling back the packing paper to reveal a small golden statue of what looked to be a gorgeous queen standing on a stack of gold coins. Realizing she had something special in her hands she began to search the statue for any bit of information that might explain where it had come from. On the bottom of the statute she found a short inscription.

The Goddess of Good Fortune provides those who stay true to themselves the tools to seek out the riches of life that they seek in life. Never stray from that which you are.

July 2038

After that fateful business trip to Bangor, Maine, Allie experienced a personal and professional renaissance like few have ever experienced. Shortly after the start of 2034 the CEO, whom she had impressed as an intern, took a renewed interest in Allie and her career. By the end of he year Allie was working with Fisker’s top clients and the CEO had taken her under his wing. Allie seemed well on her way to breaking through the glass ceiling and becoming the first woman to join senior management at Fisker.

But her professional success seemly came at a personal cost. In February of 2035 Allie found herself listening to the crinkle of paper as she sat on the examination table in her doctor’s office. Over the past couple months her body had begun to go through some peculiar changes, and on the advice of her surgeon mother she had scheduled a doctor’s appointment to get checked out. It wasn’t odd for a 32 year old woman to gain a bit of weight, but it was odd for her to be gaining weight in the manor that she was. Women don’t normally loose weight on their midsection only to gain it back on their chest and hips, but that is exactly what Allie was experiencing. In addition to the peculiar weight redistribution that Allie was experiencing, her whole body had felt rejuvenated. Like the past 8 year of grinding had been slowly wiped away from her physical being. As peculiar as all of the the changes were, it’s not like Allie was complaining about them.

Throughout 2035, 2036, and 2037 she continued to work closely with the CEO and she continued to experience these sporadic changes to her body. No matter which general physician she saw, or what specialist that they sent her to, no one could explain Allie’s revitalizing growth and after 3 years of poking and prodding she had grown numb to the changes in her body. In fact, she kind of loved them because they were ostensibly the reason behind her booming professional success. At age 35 she had become the CEO in waiting at Fisker. Her hard work, nimble mind, and her disarming physical attributes had helped her win over the CEO and leap frog the CFO and COO who had once stood between her and the top of the mountain.

July 2038

At the start of 2040 the founder and CEO of Fisker decided to it was time for him to partially retire and take on an advisory role at Fisker. His retirement was the last domino to fall in Allegra’s ascension to the CEO of Fisker Management and Consulting. At age 37, after years of busting her ass and countless cross country business trips, she had finally reach the summit. When she finally moved into the CEO’s office the first thing she did was place her “good luck” Goddess of Fortune statue in a locked glass case on the wall. Allegra had kept the little statue in her satchel that she took to every meeting and on every business trip. It was a bit awkward to always be carrying around, but there was just something about it that compelled Allegra to keep it by her side.

Three years into her tenure as CEO and Allegra’s life was marvelous. Fisker’s business was booming and the physical changes that she had been experiencing the last several years had finally come to an end. By age 40 Allegra Burton had achieved what she set out to do as a spunky 18 year old college student. She had assumed the CEO position of a major marketing company and was considered one of the most influential women in the marketing world. Life was good at the top.