I desperately want to buy an electric car for my regular-ish long distance trips to visit family. I was even going to pay for the family member I stay with to get a charging station in their garage.

Unfortunately, the trip is at best 30 miles out of range for the vehicles I have looked into, and there really aren't any reasonable charging options along the route (and fast charging will still take quite some time to get the extra range). It's a five hour drive straight through already and I don't really relish the thought of adding even more time to it by stopping (I rarely have to stop).

I make the trip seven or eight times a year, so it's worth having a car for.

You'd be better off spending some time on education. Look into community colleges that have online classes that you can do that are in the line of work you are interested in. There are lots of business oriented topics and degrees you can get, even two year degrees. Working up the ranks will be far easier once you have credential, and ideally you learn some of the skills that will be useful to you as you progress.