"I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I saw a way to increase output of the machine by about 50%, " he says.

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"I'm a PC, " an engineer in one ad proclaims.

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"I'm a little more chatty than your average engineer, " he said, standing on a busy sidewalk in front of the Austin Convention Center.

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Shawn Verrall is a software engineer as his day job, but I'm sure what he likes to do most, he's the cheap vegetable gardener.

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"When I'm out doing these trips I feel I'm doing something useful, " says software engineer Thomas Davis , 52, a cofounder of Silicon Graphics, who retired two years ago.

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"I'm more worried that we got spooked by a little negative feedback, " said another engineer.

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