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Still, I'd love to get a job using Common Lisp, which I haven't really touched since I studied. Why can't I do that?

Because, in the words of Drew Crampsie (paraphrased): Lispers do not look for Lisp jobs. They look for work to do and do it in Lisp.

Edit: Also, I believe well-established Lisp companies (such as ITA or Clozure) usually look for experienced Lispers. If you studied it in school, what makes you a good candidate for these companies?

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Thanks for good information, but it wasn't what I asked about. :-)

Lots of the standard scripting jobs out there could be done at least as well with lisp, so why aren't many of them? (For instance, there has been good interpreting and compiling environments for Lisp since the 1980s? 1970s?)

(I didn't have any Common Lisp courses, I studied another lisp. I learned CL by myself.)

Edit: A bit of syntax.

http://www.paulgraham.com/iflisp.html

The argument that Lisp is too complicated for the average programmer is clearly nonsense: Anyone smart enough to use C++ to a professional standard is certainly smart enough to use Lisp. It's just sour grapes.

There are different types of complexities.

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