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.
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.