If your work requires you to pick fruit of a certain ripeness, and you can’t tell when fruit is ripe, well… it’s probably not the right job for you.

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What… all roses aren’t red?

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Colorblind Florist

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Heat intensity, smoke color, hazard signage, victim treatment, etc. Also, see Healthcare Professional & Hazardous Materials Technician.

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Financial professionals seem to love using a rainbow of colors on their charts and spreadsheets. It is apparently better to be in the black than the red, but they look the same to me. For these reasons, some job listings explicitly disallow colorblind applicants.

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A Woman in Finance

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Well, if your designs target only goths and New Yorkers, you might be fine.

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Mitchell Hall

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Can’t trace wires, read diagnostic LED colors, read certain component values, or calibrate anything having to do with color.

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Wires are color-coded. Shocking!

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Not all electrical engineering careers require pristine colorvision, but components, wiring, diagrams, etc. tend to use color to communicate their meaning.

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Spot cleaning only works when you can see the spots.

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Even though we mostly manage to successfully navigate the challenges inherent in color-biased signals, some countries do not allow colorblind people to drive. As of this writing, colorblind persons cannot get driving licenses in China, and several other countries. Only recently were prohibitions lifted in India for people with mild colorblindness. In the United States, only Massachusetts prohibits licensing colorblind drivers. No Uber or Lyft jobs for them.

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Careful while driving
Jailed while colorblind

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See Healthcare Professional.

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Screening is a challenge when color is removed from the toolkit.

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Unless all your customers are goth. Really… just about everything related to cosmetics involves color.

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Cosmetics to the Colorblind

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People like me ask for assistance identifying a particular color, or describing the color an item of clothing, and/or if it matches another item of clothing.

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Natasha Claudill

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Testing/identifying just about anything. Interpreting just about any diagram.

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John Dalton

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Challenges with produce selection, meat doneness, and food presentation.

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Chef Benjamin Meyer

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Time is money. The colorblind sort chips too slowly to be hired, so are explicitly excluded in job listings.

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What? I don’t see any stains on that rug.

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Some jobs would be fine, but I can imagine many, very expensive mistakes. All or some of the wrong material sent to job site. Mislabeled boxes. Using incorrect grout color. Designs that use pattern of various colors.

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This would be as close to my nightmare job as I can imagine. I would be the least helpful salesperson ever!

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