It's a daydream of mine to work in Antarctica for a season. I don't really know how it works and I doubt it's something I could do, I'm not a scientist. Seems like it would be an awesome experience though.
I did an AMA while there and it actually made it to the front page of reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5656e1/iama_i_dont_ha...
Unless you're there doing research that you enjoy doing, I can tell you that it will not be an awesome experience. For a few days, OK, but beyond that, you probably will be bored to death.
I once spent 30 days in the middle of nowhere doing research. Just a few guys, no females.
When we got back to civilization, everything looked super colorful. The green leaves of plants I first saw, and it remained like that for a few days, after we got back looked absolutely beautiful. I thought I'd never seen green colors that bright.
And the sight of women, omg!
What happens in %REMOTE_PLACE%, stays in %REMOTE_PLACE%.
As long as you have a computer (with or without internet) I could never imagine being bored.
That's how I feel whenever I leave my apartment.
Antarctica wouldn't be such a big change for some.
Speaking of which, for those who are interested, I strongly recommend seeing Antarctica: A Year on Ice.[1] It's a bit of a rose-colored-glasses view, I think, but will still give you a sense of how dull and dangerous working and living there can be.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica:_A_Year_on_Ice
[1] - like when I read Big Dead Place - a book I think you'd enjoy. It's written by someone who'd stayed in a couple of the US antarctic bases (McMurdo and Pole, iirc). Warning it will make you want to go http://feralhouse.com/big-dead-place/
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Also, plenty of science groups hire "technicians" and "engineers" and other sorts of things to go build stuff.
For the really hardcore, you can try something like https://wipac.wisc.edu/careers/winterover-experiments-operat...
On the user-facing side, it seems to be a Microsoft-heavy place (we got active directory accounts, etc. and had to log into one of the Windows machines in the cluster to change our password).
My interaction with the IT people was mostly asking for port forwarding / static IP reservations for some some of our computers that needed to be accessible from up North, and for that they seemed to forward those requests to Denver (where the contractor HQ is).