Optimizing beer money

Andrew Leung
3 min readMar 13, 2024
Photo by Emil Kalibradov on Unsplash

Beer money is like the little brother of side hustles and no it is not specific to the purchase of alcohol. Beer money is a small hustle that allows you to generate some income, but not on the scale of a successful side hustle or main hustle. Beer money most often comes in the form of surveys or questionnaires where successful responses are paid for. There are many many websites and apps that offer some form of beer money some more reputable than others as well as varying frequencies of surveys. So with so many options out there, you may be thinking what is the best way to optimize this stream of income?

There are multiple approaches to consider when it comes to this type of income. First, the dollar-per-hour rate of income generation will not exceed even a minimum-wage job. Your goal with this type of income should be supplemental although there are people that use this as their main form of income when combined with other streams. So this means no compared to most other professional types of work. you are going to be making less than that main hustle. As a result you should always prioritize that over Beer money hustles.

See the table below for priorities and the justification:

  1. Main Hustle- the biggest source of your income and your main priority. losing this would severely jeopardize your personal finances
  2. Side Hustle- one or…

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Andrew Leung

I will be sharing the plain and honest: truths, pros and cons as well as my experiences of Personal Finance, Side Hustles, and Investing.