Paul G. Rodden recounts his years working as an insurance agent for the Pilot Life Insurance Company during the 1940s-1970s and his family history. He describes his interest in genealogy; the Rodden family in Davie, Rowan, and Mecklenburg Counties in North Carolina; his great-grandfather's work as a farmer, and his father's work as a sawmill operator. Mr. Rodden also recalls working at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina as a teenager beginning around 1923, and stories from his career selling life insurance.