IANAL, so I can't give you an educated response here. Not being a lawyer, I tend to act with an abundance of caution in these areas. I worked on certain financ

IANAL, so I can't give you an educated response here. Not being a lawyer, I tend to act with an abundance of caution in these areas. I worked on certain financial data models for long enough (9 years, a quarter of my life) that they're burned into my brain. Even though it's been 4 years since I've worked for that company, I could easily reproduce probably at least 90% of the data model with a fairly high degree of accuracy. That is stuff I cannot unlearn or forget. I never signed a non-compete, but I did sign an NDA that expired after a year, so I'd be in the clear if I were to re-implement something similar (I wouldn't - the data model was awful).