Wiring as a Colorblind

• Posted by Daniel Flück on March 29th, 2007 filed in Thoughts

It’s not always easy to live with your color blindness. One special case are all those color coded wires.

I recently came across this problem, when I tried to elongate a telephone cable. This can be a big problem if you are colorblind and have nobody around who can tell you which color is which and has to be connected to which port.

Brandon describes a similar problem while he was rewiring some cables in his house. He vent his anger in When Color Blindness Sucks.

What do we learn:

1. Don’t work with color coded wires if you are colorblind.
2. Because almost everything is color coded these days, stop working at all.
3. Ask the government for support because you can’t work.
4. Sit back and think what you could do in your spare time.
5. Maybe some new rewiring of your cables at home?….

Dear colorblind fellows, do you have similar experiences with color codes?