Well you can heat your room with an 1200 watt grow bulb and grow free pot at the same time as it's 100% legal in that state.
Don't know what you will be doing for the work but the pay you quoted sounds like food,fuel,heat,power,water and rent will eat up about 100% of it as your NOT in the 3 big cities and simple things like an egg,tomato or a loaf of bread make the price of pot in California look low.
Alaska costs many times more to live in than Beverly Hills or Hawaii to live in.
I think the guys that work on the pipe lines spend about 70% of wages to simply live.
Finding Work in AlaskaState of Alaska > DOLWD > Employment Security
Note they also say come with a return air ticket and at least $3K in pocket...and WARN of job offers to those out of State so I hope your not falling for some scam.
http://www.labor.state.ak.us/esd_alaska_jobs/ak_over.htmHere you can get an idea of the wages paid for jobs back in 2006 so if they "offer" you much more be warned:
http://www.labor.state.ak.us/research/wage/swoes.htmNow I'm not trying to talk you out of doing what you want...but trying to get you to think about it a bit.
Remember when you wanted to join the Marines?
I said the Air Force might have be a better idea and you got all upset.
[TKC] The Heckler! went into the USAF and spent almost his whole time going to government paid collage class and earned both Rank and pay raise and at the end of enlistment became what he calls a PFC (proud fucking civilian!)
Now the USAF is paying him his government benefits and he is STILL going to Uni class!
He took computer/communications/intel class's.
You -are- smart and if you can hang in and finish the class your taking with what amounts to a "b" or higher grade you could get into the USAF as an OFFICER after basic if you also spend a bit to learn to fly first.
I know a girl who went into the USAF kept up good grades and spent 8 years doing NOTHING but going to school.
On leave she would say how much she hated the service...but they kept paying $10K reenlistment bonus and sending her to class while she had officer pay.
When she did leave she went directly to work as an department manager at top pay at a cooling tower/water treatment company I worked for.
If your an only chiled the Service can't send you into a combat zone as well!