I work within a specialist law enforcement role now and the idea of being a patrolman In an off world mining facility sounds rather interesting if somewhat mundane (realistically you'd be dealing with drunks, petty theft and breach of station Byelaws I imagine.)
Still easy for a young man without any commitments.

The problem is that you will have to sleep a year to get there and then sleep a year to get back. So, that's at least 3 years of your life wasted.

I wouldn't myself, but some people have been doing this sort of thing since forever.
For the right money, people will move to frigid Alaska & the northwestern US/Canada, or to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East deserts to work in oil industry.
As for claustrophobia, imagine being in the Navy and living on a submarine. Or on a space station.

• Better sleeping quarters
  This outpost depends on everything being shipped to them, including their air. No way they would give people larger living spaces, the air costs alone would make it unfeasible. Hence the reason why everyone is living on top of one another in the smallest living space possible.
• Better food service
  See above. They survive on shipments. If the shipments don't come, they run out of air and food. Everyone eats what the company sloppy joints give them.
• Convert enough of the greenhouse to growing marijuana
  Not going to happen. The greenhouse only feeds the bigwigs with executive jobs at the station with real food and possibly some regular people with black market clout.

Only one way in, one way out (via spaceship), nah welfare is easier.
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The people spent their downtime getting drunk and high because that's what people are. It had nothing to do with accommodations. It could have been the nicest facilities you could find and people would still ruin it.
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If the accommodations were a little better, I would. When Sean Connery was chasing that guy it looked like a prison. The sleeping spaces for people were small and cage-like and the cafeteria looked like crap. It's quite different from the bar scenes.
Upgrade the rooms and food service to at least the level of a decent hotel (not necessarily a luxury hotel, just maybe a Marriot Courtyard or even a Fairfield) and I'd do it.
It's no wonder people spent their downtime in the bar and sought out drugs.
They need 3 changes:

• Better sleeping quarters
• Better food service
• Convert enough of the greenhouse to growing marijuana
  If they did that, my only question would be 'where do I apply?'

Depends on how much I knew going into it. If I knew it was "anything goes" the way it is on the colony, I likely wouldn't go. An unregulated party sounds great (especially when you get paid for it), but I don't have enough faith in humanity to believe people would control themselves in that situation.
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Of course I would. The hookers are nice.
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Not only is the moon of Io seriously affected by Jupiter's gravity but the orbit of the moon lies within the massive radiation belt of the planet. Io recieves 3,600 rem of radiation per day. You would be dead in a matter of a couple of days. I would definitely pass on going to work on Io.

No, I wouldn't. IO is one of the most violent places in the solar system. The moon is being constantly squeezed like a rubber stress ball by Jupiter's gravity, causing immense eruptions, lava flows and massive moon-quakes I would pass.

Technically, wouldn't the contract be for three years? The Paul character (Connery's son) asked him if it was true about having to sleep for a year to get the Earth. So, one year sleeping to get to Io, work a one year contract, then sleep for another year to get home.
The money had better be REALLY good!

The money would have to be really good. It's the real world equivalent of working on an oil pipeline in Alaska or Siberia.
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20 years ago when I was single and without kids - not to mention in much better shape I probably would have gone.
John 3:16

Not at all. By a few acres out in the country. Throw up a microhome, grow your own food and animals. Lot of people do it.

You'd have to be really good with money to live off of 300-400K. That or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of your days.
Come with me if you want to live.

If I made enough to not have to work for 10 years, yes. In today's dollars, I'd do it for about 300,000 - 400,000 bucks US. I'm good with my money and even with that, I'd probably never work another day in my life.

Those rooms are a little more per night than the rabbit hutches.

If I were a single guy, I'd probably go. I was thinking the other day how if I wouldn't miss my two kids so much, I might like the whole oil rig thing. As for the movie, those bunks were tiny. Claustrophobia might set in real quick. Maybe if they had a room like the one where the guy gets shot in.
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Money would have to real good, but there is a price for everything (at least everything legal, and with some that's not even a deal-stopper).