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Here are my thoughts on it, for what it's worth...

Judges out there have shown an incredible bias towards the employee when it comes to enforcement of non-competes. Basically, regardless of what you signed, they have shown across the continent that they will not allow an overly prohibitive non-compete to prevent a man (or woman) from earning a living. Basically, if haven't stolen any of their information and you're ready to accept that it wouldn't be fair, regardless of circumstances, for you to pursue their existing customer base then you're good to go do whatever you want.

Push come to shove you would find in the process that a judge would consider whether or not your actions were actually having a negative effect on your former employer. If you like the industry, go get a job a few miles up the road and steer clear of your former employers customer base. It'd cost him/her a small fortune to sue you and if you're not actually harming their business in any demonstrable way they'd just be throwing good money away. Remember they can't sue you just for fun, you have to have damaged them in some way that warrants their pursuit of restoration. With no financial motivation to pursue you, and with no pain felt because you'll be staying out of their accounts (...right?) you'll probably never hear from them again as it sounds like this guy is going to have his hands full babysitting newbies and putting out fires.

I'm no lawyer, but I've been around the block...

Or maybe this is a chance for you to break off into a complimentary field, there are lots of cool things going on in the tech world that revolve around what you are good at: selling monthly payments. Managed Print Services, Managed Business Services, Managed I.T. services, Managed Mobile Services, etc. Go shake the hands of your regional I.T. heavyweights and see what's on their minds you may be surprised.

Be well, keep us in the loop.
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