How much time really painting?

I spent this week placing the newsprint inks onto linen. It's a mechanical process, a stressful process that i don't have the skills neither the rawness to do it and has nothing to do with painting or the paint itself. Everything is work, painting also is, I have the feeling of being washed away, stripped from the rhythm which the paint drags me in, numb in the daily routine, the business of survival.