For what it is worth, my wife and I visited some Chilean and Russian bases in Antarctica a couple of years ago as part of a tourist visit. The Chilean base was

For what it is worth, my wife and I visited some Chilean and Russian bases in Antarctica a couple of years ago as part of a tourist visit. The Chilean base was military search & rescue and they were literally sitting around watching DVDs. The Chilean guys especially seemed absolutely desperate for new faces/human contact and welcomed us into their base with open arms (and even offered us beers!) The Russian base I could only enter one room (and a church!) so did not see how busy the were or how desperate they were in there. Some of the other bases that I could not go in to looked like basically just 2 to 4 huts/sheds - nothing like the "village" style bases/stations with loads of people milling about you might be familiar seeing. They didn't looks like fun or inviting places to hang-out at. From what I understand, the scientific bases aren't really set up for carrying part-timers. E.g. the scientists are also the cooks and the mechanics etc. I don't think they'd pay to transport, feed, heat, and give a bed to someone to just do a couple of hours work a day then hog the super-expensive bandwidth on the satellite link? They'd much rather give that fuel, food, heat and bed to a scientist I think, or at least not someone there for free accommodation & internet. tl;dr - join the chilean military and hope you get stationed out there.