From someone who has both ball pythons and corns, if you have less time/energy to pay to your snake, definitely get a corn.
Took me a few months to figure out the pythons and I had one serious problem when I let the ambient temperature in the room drop too low. We had a really unusual late cold snap for my climate, record breaking lows sort of thing and I had just fed him. He didn't digest well and suffered a prolapse when he tried to pass the partially digested mouse. I know better and have 2 space heaters in the snakes' room.
Corns you only have to worry about getting too hot, you don't want them above about 90. They can go about 10 degrees cooler than BPs and are good at 70-85F. They're also not as picky about humidity, I let mine go with the ambient humidity here and the male has always had perfect sheds. (My female has only shed once since I got her, it was in 2 pieces when I found her shedding so I helped her with the rest of it off).
Ball pythons need it a little warmer and a little moister. 80 to 85F (people here will tell you they need warmer but mine are fine in that range) and 50 to 60% humidity. I've got mine in glass aquariums so I am constantly tweaking their humidity levels. I hear it's easier to keep heat/humidity levels constant in a plastic tub, tho.
Other than BPs specific temp/humidity needs, they are notoriously picky eaters (tho both of mine eat fine, and one eats like a pig) and they can have problem sheds (my large BP sheds fine, my new little one has yet to shed since I've had him).
OTOH corns are a snap to take care of. They shed great, they have great appetites, I don't have to mess with their humidity or temp hardly at all. (except in the summer here my A/C is out on that side of the house so I give them a dish full damp spaghnum moss. The corns will slide under it to stay cool.) The big thing about corns is they are notorious escape artists. I lost my first corn cause he pushed the top of the cage off and I thought I had not fastened the lid down securely until my second corn did the same. Now I have a brick on top of his cage. And while my pythons don't seem to be interested in getting out of their cages so neither of them have secure lids ATM, there have been many stories here of people's ball pythons escaping so I'll eventually need to rectify that.
Your bigger problem seems to be what to do with it in the long term, so I'll just say, "what they said".
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