just one more thing i can't understand

i wonder... who, or more importantly, *why* would someone decide to be a telemarketer, especially in this day & age? can you remember the last time you actually listened to what one had to say? or that, thanks to the wonder that is caller id, you even bothered to pick up the phone at all? that kind of rejection has got to be bad for one's self esteem. and i wonder, also, how this is still a method of "advertising" that businesses are willing to spend money on, because i just don't see how it's really drumming up any profit for them.

this random thought brought to you by the business-related telemarketing call i just fielded here at work. and the foolish individual who thought i would actually give him the company owner's cell phone number so that the call could be placed directly.