Getting Published

I think that as any writer that tries to get published it is a heart breaking, pain staking, just overall crappy experience. I have read websites and blogs alike and have yet to find one person who seems to have an overall easy experience with it. You must get an agent. You must send each submission in their specific format and head it to a particular person. It seems that maybe the only way to get published is to do self publishing and then that is frowned upon. You must ask yourself, do I really just want to publish or do I want to profit from this? Of course I want to profit from it, just because it is my passion does not mean that I'm crazy. So while I send out my submissions laborously I am also throwing in the towel (so to speak) and I am self publishing on the Kindle and with Createspace. I guess I just have to do it so that maybe I can reap some type of reward for my hard work. So, to all of you that think this might be giving up, I am looking at is as a chance to reach more.