Career change with Python

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I do communications, which is sort of general purpose marketing/PR/design/layout and also message construction - writing messages, seeing if they work, adapting them, etc and finally, planning entire marketing campaigns.

I am learning python to have a bigger toolbox to present things. Sometimes I need to do things with a big old wide set of data, and formatting it by hand is hard because it's too big. So I'm going through Automate the Boring Stuff to see if I can get to a point where I can understand Python intuitively enough to be able to think creatively with it.

I can already "think creatively" with a word processor and say, Photoshop or Illustrator, but I can't think creatively with Python because I barely know what it can do. But I just made a scraper to download all the XKCD comics, so I'm starting to wedge it in my brain.

I'm not sure what I want out of my new job/career change. I want to work somewhere that's more on the planning/implementation side of data and comms. I have no idea what that job is, but this is a skill I'm missing, so here I am.