Can you call your job work or a job when you love it?

 I have been been asked, "How can you do the work you do?". 

Yesterday.. amidst the silence as I let a long pause "hang" the patient asked, "May I tell you something?" 

I replied, "Of course.". and as we were less than a foot apart.. him laying in his bed..

my hand on his arm.. he told me something.. and then said, "I've never told anyone that before.".