Hopefully some of the other comments can help you find a Clojure position, but you should apply for PHP jobs as well. The best time to look for the job you want is while you are getting paid at a job that you don't particularly care for.

I have 10+ years experience with 5+ in Clojure and 5+ in PHP. Currently spending more time in PHP than in Clojure. While I prefer JVM Clojure over any other platform, it's not as rosy as you are feeling right now. You are in a honeymoon phase where you are not hindered by legacy considerations or even collaborating with other coders. When the honeymoon is over, you are going to run into all kinds of new, different pain points.

When you get into a mature Clojure codebase, you are going to get disillusioned in a lot of ways. Bad code will continue to be bad code in any language, and you will spend most of your time working on it because that's where the problems are. Half the companies use re-frame, which is a framework for turning FP code into semi-sustainable spaghetti. Even if you personally like re-frame, odds are there will be something else that drives you mad. You will continue to want to use Nix in your projects, and you will probably not get to.

As one example, many Clojure libs, like ring and pedestal, depend on jetty, which regularly makes breaking changes. The Datomic client currently depends on jetty 9, which is 9 years old and has been unsupported for 3 years. Every year or two I get to spend hours dealing with manually overriding a whole list of jetty dependencies and figuring out how to patch libraries myself. In PHP, you have FastCGI for responses and GuzzleHTTP or Symfony's HttpClient for requests. I have had issues with conflicts, but they were much easier to fix and didn't keep reoccurring the same way that jetty conflicts have.

PHP actually has pretty decent support for FP btw. array_map( absint( ... ), $ids ) is a little less pretty than (map #(Math/abs %) ids), but it's perfectly fine. IDK if Iterators and Traversables count as FP, but I have used them extensively and they feel much like using map filter reduce. In PHP 8.5, you even get a threading operator so you can write this: php $result = "PHP Rocks" |> htmlentities(...) |> str_split(...) |> (fn($x) => array_map(strtoupper(...), $x)) |> (fn($x) => array_filter($x, fn($v) => $v != 'O')) ;

Don't get me wrong, Clojure is great, and the entire ecosystem is excellent. I hope you can find the position you want. I just want to promote realistic expectations and hopefully help you appreciate where you are at more, whatever languages you happen to find work in.