Having a security clearance can be job security for the private sector, too (well, government contractors). I interned at a company that decided they needed to

Having a security clearance can be job security for the private sector, too (well, government contractors). I interned at a company that decided they needed to do a large round of layoffs. To my knowledge, nobody with a security clearance lost their job, even though it was a 'classified' project that was lost.