What is the difference between "I'm teaching at university" and "I teach at university"?
another example: "I work in the library every day" VS "I am working in the library every day"
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Your two examples are not equivalent.
My current job is as a teacher. I do this at the university. There is the slight connotation in the first that you are doing that right now whereas the second example is habitual - you do it Monday to Friday, but not necessarily at the time you are speaking.
Again, habitual. That's what you do for your job, even if you aren't there right now.
You are trying to push the 'habitual' behaviour aspect of the first usage onto this sentence, where it doesn't function.
Better would be to re-use the teaching examples from earlier
You could use the first as an answer to both "Where are you? What are you doing?" & also "What do you do for a living?"
You can imply habitual behaviour in common speech by using the present tense.
The second example is habitual only & can't be really used to describe what you are doing right now.