This 28-year-old paid off her law school loans selling stickers and coloring books

Elyse Burns enrolled in law school at Duke University in 2019, taking out federal student loans to cover the $63,000 in tuition plus her living expenses, she says. A law career seemed like the practical move, but before she graduated, she knew she wouldn't work as a lawyer. "I feel like everybody knows you can make a good living as a lawyer, and you can't as an artist , and that's sort of like the stereotype and the thought," the 28-year-old says. …