“What kind of job do you think is totally secure?” he quizzes me in return. “A public employee like you, or a big corporation?” “Nothing is,” he replies, gently shaking his head. “Not one single job I could name is absolutely secure. Everybody just does their best to hang in there, trying to balance it all.” His expression is mild, but his tone is dead serious. “There’s no guarantee of certainty in anything. But the flip side to there being no guarantee of security, is that there’s also no certainty that something is a dud.”
