What does the Common Lisp consulting market look like?
If one puts themselves out there (build reputation on the Internet) as a CL programmer, are they likely to land consulting gigs?
Well, Clozure Associates was in that line of work and they are out of business. So that's a data point.
Before that I wrote an e-commerce system that I used to run my company, Spark Innovations. It used Stripe for billing, Easypost for shipping, and Hunchentoot as the web server. I also wrote a spam filter that is still in production on my personal web server.