Five Minutes to Tilt #7 – John Borg on Leaving a Safe Job to Design Star Wars Pinball

“I was offered a job at Premier Technology for less money than the hydraulics engineer position. I took the one in pinball because I knew it was going to be a lot more fun.”

“And I'm sitting in the front lobby and there are pinball backglasses around the whole perimeter of the room. And I'm like pinball. How cool is this?”

“I think I've made I I did a seminar and I wrote down the names of all the games that I've made or worked on and I think the list came out to like 75, but I think most 50 of them probably since 1991 or I believe when Star Wars came out.”

“It was a 10-hour day. um it was standing on your feet all the time and it was very very extremely hard work and a lot of math.”

“I looked in the Tribune and I found this ad on the table and it said mechanical engineer needed and a phone number. It was the size of a postage stamp.”

“I studied plastics engineering and manufacturing engineering and mechanic drafting and and CAD in in college. I was like, this is perfect. I'm going to be working with wood, sheet metal, injection molded parts, which I knew a lot about.”