[keiferski]

I’m not sure what if accounting exams / knowledge transfer between France and USA/UK, but I would strongly suggest trying to find a remote job as an accountant or even just a bookkeeper. These jobs are available and you’ll have a much easier time than retraining as a programmer.

This is a good place to start looking:

https://remote.co/remote-jobs/accounting/

[Woadray]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm done with accounting for now, I'm looking to try something else. If money becomes tight I can always come back and take back my old job, they are pretty nice.

[keiferski]

Sure no problem. In that case, if your goal is only about $1,000 a month, I would suggest just going after WordPress / web design / low-level type stuff. Especially if you are comfortable with doing support roles. There are a lot of remote support jobs for small companies that pay modestly but are open to pretty much anyone. Depending on the company, they are a good on-ramp to being technical.

[nextos]

Maybe you should consider pivoting from accounting to software in a controlled manner. That is try to progress towards software development positions where accounting know-how is required. Good luck.

[chefkoch]

That seems a much better idea. Work remote as a accountant for a french company.

[Woadray]

Yes... but I'm done with accounting for now. I can always come back and take my old job if things go wrong anyway. I'm in need of pursuing new and exciting stuff.

[chefkoch]

But If you get only want 900€ per month you can work 15 hours as accountant and slowly move to programming.

[notahacker]

And if you want to improve your programming skill and maybe build something of your own one day, then there are a lot of accountancy-related problems that can be solved with fairly basic programming skills (and a lot of accountants who can't program but would love to automate parts of their job)

Probably more interesting as well as better paid work dealing with firms that value your understanding of French accounts than firms that just want the cheapest offshore developer to tweak their WordPress installation. Even if you can live quite well in Madagascar by being in the second group.