I hope you are doing well @ac3r, For me my journey started when I had interest in programming.. So from a friend I have got a pdf and visual basic IDE, and start making custom forms, calculators and many more things. Inside these books I have found one of them talking more about keyloggers and RATs, that book was interesting. Then when I reached internet the first thing to do was searching for hacking community and course. I have found an Arabic forums like this. it was hard or rough start as I hadn't really any idea about what is going on but ehh after 1 to 2 years slowly I start learning different kind of Exploits and Vulns included LFI, RFI, XSS and SQL. Finding these kind of vulns was easy actually in past today it is not as easy as before. I had never taken any course but my strategy of learning is "Learn or Search for what I really need to know!!" so not taking a whole course hours of watching videos or reading for nothing. I would read 10 articles just to get my answer but not gonna take any course.
I hope you best of luck
I hope you best of luck
* Thankful to Allah *
Kurdy