[_spoonman]

No goals per se...just kind of interested in the field and would be doing it for personal interest. I've found tons of sites that offer lab environments and downloadable VM's that allow you to practice exploits so maybe that would be a cheaper way to go in the beginning.

[wepple]

Yeah totally do that then. And get a copy of burp and hack some web stuff. Have a crack at bug bounties to test your chops.