Only if you were a military officer or university professor or a judge.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

One reason such laws are installed is that frequently such jobs are below the paygrade for one's qualifications. This is how it works in the USA. A government job typically means you are trading income for long-term stability, and that your decision to enter the government workforce means you are practically exempting yourself from work in other sectors (obviously, in cases such as the IRS or political positions, this is not the case).