Private flying is the same thing we all enjoy even if some of us get paid to fly on other days of the week.
I remember one guy who started learning to fly just after I got my PPL who whizzed through his CPL and went off overseas to fly in some unpronounceable country. When I next saw him he had amassed hundreds of hours and I asked him if he still enjoys flying now that its a job. He said that he has days at work when they are flying milk runs and it gets tedious, but when he is up in a small piston single with his family and/or friends he still gets as big a kick out of flying as he did when he had 50 hours in his logbook and the ink was still drying on his PPL.