Have you ever wanted to give up?

I would imagine we've all been there.  But think about the options.  What would you be doing if you weren't a photographer?  Is that a better or worse career for you? 

That's sort of the point, isn't it?  You know what you'll be doing if you don't get your photography business to a point where it's paying the bills.  Would you rather be injecting nuclear dyes into patients with cancer or photographing weddings and babies?

Every job is going to have downsides.  Photography requires a lot of time sitting in front of a computer editing sessions.  Unfortunately we sometimes focus on the negatives rather than the positives.  Try and focus on the happiness that you'll bring to your clients when they see the images instead of how your back feels sitting at the computer for 8 hours. 

And I really don't mean to discount what you do now.  It's important that there are people working in the medical field, and I have a lot of respect for those that can do it.  I thought of going to school to get licensed as a paramedic, but the chances of seeing death on a fairly regular basis kept me from following through, although I did get up to EMT-I. 

Oh Marian, We have all been there.  It was just a couple weeks ago that I posted the same sort of thing here.  We all get frustrated and discouraged.  I won't hijack your thread and go into all my problems, but just know that I struggle off and on.  Just remember that if this business were easy everyone would do it and then the job wouldn't be valued at all. 
I want to tell you to stick with it, to work past the days of frustration you will feel, but it's your choice to do so.  If you love it and have a passion for it then it is worth it.  It is hard to make a living being self employed.  Being a photographer has no set track to take, there isn't vacation pay and benefits that a 9 to 5 can provide.  You have to make your business yourself, you have to do all the work.  But the exciting thing about that is that the rewards are bigger the harder you work.  I can't say that about any other job I have had.  My husband and I still have regular jobs.  He does technical computer software freight auditing boring crap and I am a wedding and event coordinator for a company which is NOT as glamorous as it sounds.  I sit at a computer all day bored and get the occasional call from an extremely grumpy mother of the bride or some assistant to someone important who is mad that I ruined their wrap party at Sundance because they were short one wine glass and Mr. VIP had to drink Cristal out of a paper cup.  Those things are hardly rewarding.  The point is that our photography doesn't sustain our family yet.  It doesn't happen overnight.
Take a break from your printer problems today and do something good for yourself.  I don't condone procrastinating but it sounds like you need to work on your problems when you aren't so emotional.  Remember, making big life decisions is not a good idea when you are upset.

Ha ha, I don't drink, but I might make an exception for something that expensive, paper cup or not. 
I am sorry about the pain thing.  It's frustrating when you can't control things like that.

I had that thought this morning.  I just get so busy and I think back to when I just had a normal job and didn't try and balance everything.  I have two photoshoots back to back on Saturday, and wedding season is coming up and last year I was so busy.  And yet, I am still not doing the amount of business others do or that I need to do.   AHHHH!!!