11.   Al Barringer, director of the Police Academy at Houston Community College, said many recruits see police work as the ultimate secure job.

12.   But think of another group of federal employees with secure jobs, higher pay than comparable workers in the private sector and ample experience handling packages.

13.   David Diggs plans to leave New York City, join his girlfriend in the Middle West and find a secure job in what has become an insecure economy.

14.   Earlier this summer, Carroll left a secure job as news and public affairs director at WYAY-FM, and she and Sprul moved to Savannah full time.

15.   For illegal immigrants, a secure job of any kind has become harder to find.

16.   Four years ago, Birmingham attorney Mike Stewart quit a secure job as general counsel to a health care company to write a novel.

17.   He could be a married man with children, a secure job and a reserved pew in church.

18.   Her friends with secure jobs could not understand why someone with her background could not get back on her feet.

19.   Most of these victims have to accept diminished pay and benefits in less secure jobs.

20.   Nonetheless, with a secure job and a sparsely furnished apartment, Ms. Petriccione is planning to buy some living-room furniture.