Setting Up A Guitar - Not As Easy As I Thought.

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Sooo, I'm working on a Fender Tele this week, and I've discovered that not only do you have to get the neck relief right, you've gottah mess with the truss bar several times, set the action, and do the intonation about as often as you make an adjustment to anything else. Not to mention: retuning the instrument after every tweak --- There's got to be a better way! My usual work on leveling and crowning frets is tough enough. It requires hours of insanely precise work, taping up the neck (and the guitar if it's not just a dummy), straining your hands, back, and eyes all at the same time. Then you've gottah pray that you don't make a mistake - because mistakes have to be repaired. And that's what you're doing in the first place! Auggghhhh!!!So here I am worrying that I'll never learn to set up guitars fast enough for it to be profitable, and worrying that my fret jobs take to long too. Do any of you have experience in this, and what do you do to take the pressure off? I'm really feeling run ragged.