From the article:

About a year-and-a-half after being laid off, she found herself doing almost exactly what she had done before, only this time for a Pratt contractor. She now earns $80,000 a year.

Ms. Carron said she was not familiar with other programming languages that are more broadly used, so she was lucky to have found a job working on the same project.

This begs the question of what she was doing in those 18 months. Even after 18 months of not using Ada (I assume) she'd be pretty rusty. Surely of all the professions mentioned, programmers have it easiest to update their skills.