Also called: Arcade Repair Technician, Pinball Mechanic
Repairs and maintains arcade cabinets and pinball machines for arcades, bars and collectors, fixing electronics, monitors and mechanical parts.
An arcade tech replaces a pinball flipper coil, fixes a jammed coin mechanism, and repairs old monitors at an arcade or bar. Finding rare replacement parts for 40-year-old machines is part of the fun.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. About a year of electronics training at a trade school or community college, then hands-on repair work at an arcade or pinball shop.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Trade school. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Electronics Technology.
Growing about average. Steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Repairing arcade cabinets and pinball machines is hands-on electronics work that stays human.
Classes: Electronics, Shop class, Computer science, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-2097.
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