Create a file ~/.ssh/config

If you have 2 keys, for example: id_rsa for your personal, and id_work for your work, set the config as:

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Host github-work
    HostName github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_work
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Now, when cloning or adding remote, change the github.com in the clone url is changed to github-work

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git clone git@github-work:username/whatever.git

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