How long it takes to get 100 one way links?

Building one way linksto Your websites, blogs or ads is most important step in internet marketing to get growing and long lasting flow of targeted audience to them. Everyone, who has submitted urls to website directories, knows that this takes lots of time. It gets even worse. Most of free submissions to directories except You to link back. Even if You did link back, it does not mean that Your website url will be included to the directory. I have spent hours and days to build one way linksto my websites and ads (it was in beginning of my internet marketing adventure). In my experience from 100 submissions only 5-6 free directories added my site to the listing - that’s 5-6% effectiveness. It takes about 10 minutes to add ONE link(with search, make quick analysis of them and adding a back link to directory) . To submit 100 one way links it will take 10×100=1000 minutes=16 and half hours to get 5 or 6 in-links (by effectiveness of 5-6%). To get 100 one way links, You have to spend about 330 HOURS - it is about 14 days, if You work 24 hours a day.

Are You getting the whole picture? How much do You earn at Your work in that 330 hours? Is’nt that more than 2 months salary.

Depressing or what?

So what to do?