Livingston boss David Martindale insists he has no fear of losing his job as manager at the West Lothian club, despite sitting bottom of the Scottish Premiership.
The promoted side are three points behind Kilmarnock in 11th and eight points off St Mirren in safety, who have also played a game less than Livi.
Following Saturday's 6-2 defeat at Aberdeen Livingston are now winless in 21 league matches, the only side to go 22 games without a win in the Scottish top flight in the 21st century are Hamilton Accies back in 2010/11.
The club have a new owner in American businessman Calvin Ford but Martindale says regardless of where he is working he will not have any fear about getting the sack.
"I'll never fear for my job in my life, never," the 51-year-old.
"Why would you fear for your job? If you fear for your job, all that happens is you start playing safe, you don't take risks, and you start making wrong decisions based on emotions. I'll never ever fear for my job.
"This is the first proper contract I've had at the club, so if anything, I'm probably in a much more secure position than I've ever been at Livingston.
"But I will never, no matter what the job is, no matter what the club is, no matter what I'm doing, I'll never come into my work scared about losing my job. Because I think it leads to you, I don't think you get the best version of yourself."
Martindale was shown a red card in the defeat to Aberdeen on Saturday and says he takes the brunt of the responsibility for the loss and acknowledges the team must to better when they host Motherwell this weekend.
"I let the team down on Saturday," he added.
"I take that one, it's my discipline. I think that went on to the park as well, so I think I've got to take that one on the chin. That's on me.
"In the previous game here with Motherwell I think we more than matched them. We'd done really well but we gave away a last minute goal, a very, very stupid last minute goal, and we lost the point. But I thought it was a really good game of football.
"So I think we're more than capable of getting something from the game, but we know how hard it's going to be.
"We've got to be at our absolute best to get something from this game."
