You could use your CRUD experience to find a similar role writing desktop or server apps in Go, C#, or Java. A book on data structures and algorithms is a good place to start. It would be a step closer to making software in more interesting fields, games, building your own product, or just writing code only for your business to help sell something else.
There is also the database path (for example, TPS reports), but it's another environment where you're at the whim of a giant monolithic mystery machine. I've found there are no limits to depths of business logic that someone can invent for you to implement, just to save them a dollar.
Want to automate your office document? Enjoy making your business dependent on a language