Grinding Faction... ugh!

I've been spending the past week grinding standing with an NPC corporation so I can refine with zero taxes. It's driving me nuts how slow it is going! I started at 0.0 standing and now I'm at 0.37 standing with the corporation. It doesn't help that the lowest agent I can use is a -17 quality agent and the next one I can use is a 15 quality agent... meaning I'll need roughly 0.75 faction before that better agent starts giving me missions without talking dirty to me.

I find it both frustrating and refreshing. Frustrating in that it takes so much work to get so far in this game but refreshing because accomplishments in this game are so much more... that and it keeps the people who demand instant gratification out of Eve Online... I can't really stand those people.