Please, don't do this !

[metallion58]

But some will try anyway.
Good article on the Pop Photo site.

[OsmosisStudios]

Ideas On Scraping Up Extra Cash For The Holidays - The Consumerist

First comment on that is mine; I was lucky enough to find it right after it was posted.

If someone will pay you for it, more power to ya.

[litenphrame]

I would never publicly give advice that is so predictably destructive in its outcome! Unless the individual is a photographic savant or has tons of experience, that advice is bound to destroy a relationship or two as well as any aspirations for the budding amateur. H*&l, even with tons of experience, there is no satisfying a crowd of people. Parties are for fun, not usually for business and it's better kept that way.

[Tiberius]

Yes! I'll shoot your family Xmas party! I has a gooder camera than most people! And I sootz it on P mode coz dat meenz profeshunal! And sumtimes I shoots in da green box coz I likes to look after da inviroment!