I think that even if you love your work you need a balance.
Take the game industry for instance. Most of the people working in games are young males who love games and love making games. They usually don't have families and happily put in long hours doing what they love. The average career for a games developers is around 2-3 years. They burn out quicker than a house on fire, or realize they are burning out and quit even though they love (or at least used to) their work.
This is even more true with work that uses mainly one "muscle". Like game programing, which is all about logic. I believe combining activities that use different "muscles" is very important to having a balanced life. You may be lucky, and have a job that does that, but most of use are not. At the moment I make a living as a programer, so I try to do different things in my free time, like exercise, socialize and draw comics. I have a couple of small programing projects in my drawer at home, but I'll leave them for later when my work will be more focused on artistic work.
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