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Not in Georgia, my friend.
Again... every state is different.
If you are a programmer, then you can he a programmer in Georgia.
You probably would not be able to bring any resources to your new employer (client list, protected intellectual property, etc..) and you definitely would not be permitted to solicit or recruit prior customers/coworkers for a specific amount of time (typically 1 year).
Your state may be completely different. And I won't get out of my skis.
But there are several precedents of the government protecting your right to put food on the table.

I don't know the laws in all states, and I'm not a lawyer. I just know about this because I've signed one. So when you say this business can't do this and that, I just know that it is actually possible.

And I know the terms of what I signed was what I said previously. That I could not get a job in the same industry, but I could get any other programming job I wanted. What I do is not industry specific, I can do it in any industry, so there was no conflict.

I signed the agreement of my own free will knowing full well what I was signing. Maybe I could have hired a lawyer who could have argued this and that, but I have morals and it never affected me anyway.

This post was edited on 12/7/22 at 10:26 pm