Pay Day with Jioji Ravulo: 'My first pay went towards helping with the rent and school supplies'

The ABC's new column where we ask Australians the money questions we don't like to talk about. Jioji Ravulo is the chair of social work and policy studies at the University of Sydney and Australia's first Pasifika professor. For Pay Day, Jioji explains how sharing his money with his extended family was part of life from his very first pay cheque and why, even now, he's always on the hunt for a good bargain. I remember using my first pay to buy a delicious vanilla slice and chocolate milk at the bakery next door to the newsagency. My first pay there went towards helping with the rent and purchasing school supplies.