Question about Hedge Fund career dream

Let us suppose, you are an ordinary middle class guy.

However, you have known through your best friend in college for six years a woman from a very wealthy family, who is superior to you in every way (socially, leadership, brains), etc. She is the daughter of a B list New York Finance family (200MM net worth). She currently works as a top analyst at an up and coming Hedge Fund. You happen to have an interest in finance.

It is obvious that she plans to open her own shop one day. You admire her the way some guys admire Lara Croft.

In terms of your own career dream, the only thing that would be truly make you happy would be to WORK FOR her. Not become managing director of Goldman Sachs, not make 10 million a year as a prop trader, not start the next facebook, not cure cancer, not be president of the United States,. That is a dream that I have lived and breathed since I have known her: To have a career as her minion when she has her own hedge fund.

Okay, now that you have heard this rather unconventional dream, here is the pragmatic question:

Since:

1. I didn’t go to an Ivy, have experience at a BB bank or anything that 99.9999 percent of hedge fund investment professionals have.
2. The competition to be a hedge fund investment professional or PM is worse than trying to get on American Idol.
3. Investment professionals at Hedge Funds can get easily yanked if they have a bad year, which defeats my career ambition: Long term career as her employee.
4. From what I have seen, Back and Mid office professionals at Hedge funds have less pedigree then Front Office types. The Compliance and Risk management professionals at the fund where she currently works at, seem to have state school undergrad degrees just like me.
5. I don’t care if I only personally make low six figures rather then millions.

Would a back or middle office role like Accounting, Compliance, Operations, or Risk Management be a good path for me? I lack the leadership and pedigree to get into an MBA but with my solid analytical aptitude, I could see myself getting into a decent Law school (for Compliance), Masters of Accounting, or Masters of Finance (for Risk Management).

I have heard that if they are extremely good at what they do, a top back or mid office professional can actually have a very good niche for themselves within the hedge fund they work for.

Here is a better way to phase the question: Let us suppose, for some reason you wanted for some unconventional reason a career dream to work at a specific Hedge Fund long term, but you don't care whether you are a Front office guy, Middle office guy, or Back office guy, what would be some good alternative niches to Front office?

I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions,

Thanks