>how do you deal with intellectual property clauses in employment contracts, such that your employer owns the “inventions” you create in your free time, on your own equipment, unrelated to the business area you work in?
By not signing those things, plain and simple. I have never signed an employment contract and I never will.
Does that mean you never worked for a company (in an IP-related job), or actually managed to find companies who hired you without signing a contract? If the latter, what kind of companies do that?
By not signing those things, plain and simple. I have never signed an employment contract and I never will.