A VAP will typically cover the course load of a permanent faculty member who is going on sabbatical or, sometimes, retiring.
Sometimes the retired or the redundant have been surprised to find themselves thrust back into employment.
They are professionals (sometimes recently retired) with a scientific or technical background connected to the topic they are evaluating.
When people ask me what I do now, I sometimes say, "I'm retired," sometimes, "I'm transitioning," and very occasionally, "I'm a painter".
Sometimes, husbands retire just as their wives are resuming their careers, said Dr. Joel S. Savishinsky, author of "Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America," a book published last year that followed 26 people in retirement.
Sometimes people retire overseas part-time and get their Social Security check at home; [they] bank in U.S., but rent or own a home and live overseas.
"Things haven't changed that much," said Hart, now 55 and retired, who sometimes visits locker rooms.
But after the shuttle program retired, NASA sometimes made more news traveling through city streets instead of into space.
So the options are there if the Yankees want to use these spinoffs to provide compensation to Jeter that is not payroll-related and that goes beyond the type of personal-services contracts that retired players sometimes get from team owners.
Even as a 30-year member of the department who is now retired, I sometimes have to argue and beg an officer to take a report on a routine, mundane matter like minor dispute, damage to property, harassment or an observation of drug sales.
