[reaperducer]

I think it's worth a try. The company is organized into small teams, and the HR department places a big emphasis on people learning new skills. We have a big catalog of in-house classes that are scheduled and taught every month (or quarter, depending on the complexity) with the purpose of promoting personal and professional growth.

While Lisp is not core to what I do, neither is cooking, yet the company gives us classes in that, too. So I think I have a shot.

[gilesgate]

Definitely go for it, then, and try to do Common Lisp rather than anything else. You can always expand later to JVM-based Clojure, or indeed contract to Scheme, but it's good to start with the thing itself.

The world always needs more good Lisp programmers.