Is there a difference between "doing what you love" and "loving what you do?"

[tzs]

Well do you wanna wake up in the morning to go to do your job with bells on, or do you feel like every time you go to work you are in shackles? Good question, only the individual could make that decision.

[oldbuddy]

Is there a difference between eating whatever you cook and cooking whatever you eat?

Same deal, of course there is a difference.

Eating whatever you cook doesn't mean you don't eat what other people cook, but cooking whatever you eat is all inclusive.

[mh874892]

I see it as a time and place issue. If I'm doing what I love, it is in that particular moment in time, that specific task. If I'm loving what I do, it's in a general sense of loving my job, life, whatever. Currently, I'm loving what I do (my life in a broad sense), but I need do what I love (a specific job with accounting/numbers/problem solving).