New Job Advice?
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- flashbender0
Just curious because I have a friend in a similar situation. If you did sign a non-compete but are leaving to work in a different industry, providing completely different services and not in competition with the company you left, does a non-compete even have anything to do with that?
mg33
(Aug 13 07, 08:46)---
The beauty of the non-compete is that it can not bar you from making a living - meaning if you are a designer, you can go design where ever... sure they can try to stop you, but as someone pointed out, would you be worth the legal battle?
Basically your current company would have to prove that you are taking a substantial amount of income from them - so this could be a little bit tricky since the new job would be a client of your current job. So if your role changes I don;t think you have anything to worry about... if you are going to the new place to do EXACTLY what they were paying your former employer for you to do, then you may have to be a little "untruthful" when exiting.