Good for the 4% of students that are colorblind, but perhaps not so good for the rest.
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Art Teacher
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Architect
Material and finish selection. Reading multi-color CAD images. Trying to sound confident when telling the client about why you selected that color.
My story: Green Trees
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Animal Control Enforcement
Tough to follow up on reports that someone was bitten by a large brown dog. Difficult to evaluate health of animal, i.e. blood, eyes, rash, dirt.
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Air Traffic Controller
Needs to communicate with the pilots by observing the multicolor dots corresponding to each aircraft on the flight data processing system. Identifying false targets on color-dependent radar.
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Astronaut
Generally, colorblind persons cannot become astronauts. However, an ambitious, colorblind American Roger Crouch was rejected as a pilot, then as an astronaut, but eventually he applied to be a payload specialist and did make two spaceflights.
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Challenging Careers
Colorblindness is generally described as a minor inconvenience. For many of us this is a vast understatement. I would appreciate your help cataloging a comprehensive list of careers impacted by colorblindness.
Depending upon the type and severity of one’s color vision deficiency, it is difficult to pursue the careers listed below. Even those that successfully enter these professions will likely struggle to be among the top in their field.
I welcome any feedback in the comments, but am particularly interested in the following:
- Occupations that should be added to the list below, and why.
- Additional reasons the following jobs are particularly challenging.
- Uplifting stories of how you overcame obstacles to thrive in these professions.
Colorless 