For everyone needing initial ETH in order to access your tokens, you may want to consider the new L2 solution. Transaction costs will be a little higher, but you can pay them with STORJ tokens, so you can avoid having to buy ETH or rely on the kindness of others to get access to your earnings.
After having collected enough earnings you could then transfer your earnings to an exchange and get your own ETH if you want to switch back to L1 payouts to save on transaction costs. May be easier to just stick with L2 though if you don’t want to bother with additional transfers and assets. But that’s up to you.