In "Mouses," an unemployed engineer begins to perform macabre experiments on the rodents that have invaded his house.

"For the first half of the war, I could read," said unemployed engineer, who is 43.

"He is one of us," declared Igor Chilikov, 49, an unemployed engineer.

Fifty thousand unemployed engineers, is what.

The effort was designed, they say, to keep unemployed Russian engineers and scientists from exporting rocket and weapons technology to make a living.

California and Florida, where he looked for jobs for several months, are glutted with unemployed engineers, he said.

The JEA started a campaign for unemployed engineers.

"It was all so romantic," Mr. Manyakin, now an unemployed engineer, recalled, his eyes still glistening at the memory.

Fred, the eldest, is an unemployed engineer.

Some are highly educated - there is a former nurse and an unemployed engineer - and only recently fell on hard times.