When it's pretty standard practice not everyone can just turn down the jobs. So I weight the risk versus the reward. Very low risk of them actually enforcing it

When it's pretty standard practice not everyone can just turn down the jobs. So I weight the risk versus the reward. Very low risk of them actually enforcing it on a peon like me. Reward is a keep a roof over my family's head. If I wanted to avoid noncompetes I could go to construction or go back to working in retail I guess. I do believe that if everyone started refusing to work under NCAs then employers would be forced to change them but how many people have the ability to turn down so many jobs?