The question of life choice is of special significance to individuals yet remains underexplored in psychology. Difficulty in the precise definition of “life choice”, complexity in interpreting the notion, and scarcity of special research methods - all contribute to such a situation. This article contains a brief analysis of the current state of life choice problem, reviews existing research approaches and their limitations, and highlights the need for empirical investigations and qualitative methods. We analyzed life choice data using semi-structured interview: 44 respondents of middle maturity age (30-45 years old), while answering questions, on their own identified significant life choice situations and counted the number of such choices. The qualitative-quantitative analysis of these autobiographical texts identified choice episode categories, pinpointed the most (“family” and “profession”) and the least (“finance”) frequently named fields of choice realization, showed that the episodes can be divided into