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by chefkoch 1896 days ago
But If you get only want 900€ per month you can work 15 hours as accountant and slowly move to programming.
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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.