I've been trying to teach myself python over the last couple of weeks. I have read various e-books and tutorials and feel that I have a basic understanding(though I still do not fully understand the whole OOP end, which I know is extremely important).

My question is, where to go next? My goal is to eventually do some free lance work and just create private scripts for myself. I don't know how to start going about project at this point, but that is what I would like to do. Any suggestions?