Written by Erica Rose Jackson I am an avid reader so asking me to choose a single text that made an impact on my life is challenging. There have been many books that inspired me in some way or another, but the one that made the biggest impact was The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was my first exposure to Sherlock Holmes and it opened a window to so many more stories and novels. What Sherlock Holmes did, in this story, that influenced me was his ability to always be ahead of everyone around you. I love a good mystery, and this book was just what I needed, not to mention causing my first literary crush on Mr. Holmes. After inhaling the works of Doyle on Sherlock Holmes, it took me a while to realize what an impact he had on my life. I finally had that ‘ah ha’ moment in college when I was trying to figure out where to go with my life. I chose Public Relations because I enjoyed the idea of doing research and planning to such a deep degree that I would always be the one with the answer, like Holmes. Sherlock Holmes formed my future career as early as the fourth grade, even though I didn’t realize it at that time. His ability to interject some piece of information that no one else could think of so quickly, was appealing and, it turns out, exactly the type of person I wanted to be. His influence goes back to every job I’ve held. I am the employee who goes further within the programs and knowledge so that people come to me. Thanks Sherlock! Hopefully no one finds me as pretentious and annoying. I never found Holmes annoying, but in the books some certainly did. Yes, I did do a little photo editing to get William Shatner in my Sherlock collage. I had to because he was actually in the TV movie of The Hound of the Baskervilles, my first Holmes exposure, and later became a huge crush of mine. It was a sign.
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