First of all, whoever put weird Al on this thread has great taste
I'm an REM fan too so double cool.
I did the telemarketing thing too and it was a crap job. However, I needed it to pay the rent at the time.
What you learn is that there is two different kinds of telemarketing.
Those where you have a lead (like when someone already bought something from you and you call them up and offer them a renewal to the magazine or something similar) and cold calling. I hated cold calling and eventually asked to be removed from it.
I feel the same way with spam. Even if I don't like it I will just grin and bear it if someone got my email in a legit way and is spamming details of a program or a product that relates to a site I joined or a product I bought.
What I hate is those spams where they don't even take the time to make it a blind CC and you can tell they just went through the alphabet. I also hate those that lie to me and tell me I once bought something from them or joined their mailing list.
It happens in the webmaster spam too. For a while I was getting a spam from a 'sponsor' that claimed I had signed up with them and supplied me with a username and passowrd. I never even heard of them, let alone signed up with them.
I can deal with spam. Just don't try to scam me.