You are trying to hard to pick apart individual words. I can write an application in C and with no other software have it running on the vast majority of hardware in the world with no other layer of software required for that application to run. Conversely, I don't know of a single piece of hardware that can run a program written in Python without the use of a layer of software, generally written in C.
But if you already have a job and want a language that can do pretty much anything quickly then learn Python; and learn how to program it properly, rather than like a C or Java programmer (if there is such a thing).
This comes across as being derogatory towards c programmers.