writing Java, which I've never done and would probably be pretty bad at Something tells me that you could still get a job doing it, it just might not be a job

writing Java, which I've never done and would probably be pretty bad at Something tells me that you could still get a job doing it, it just might not be a job you particularly wanted :-) Seriously, though, clojure devs are a funny group. Clojure isn't anybody's first language at this point, and for the majority it's probably not even their third or fourth language, so they're already selecting for people who not only can, but choose to and enjoy learning new languages which are demonstrably deeper and have more details to learn than Java. Not only that, the language was specifically designed to be easy to learn. What I've found trick with Java isn't the language, though - it's the ecosystem. Just trying to figure out which way is up in a Tomcat installation, for instance, is an absolute bear.