Most Difficult Decision

3 So, I saw this and was chuckling at how people reacted to a relatively harmless, though suspicious, question.
Anyway, it got me curious. If you were asked this question in a job interview, would you give something work-related or would giving a somewhat personal answer be acceptable as well?

If I were asked this question, I'd say that the most difficult decision that I had to make was packing up my life from the country I grew in and moving to where I am living now (I apologize for the vagueness). It was hard leaving my family and it was equally hard starting over in this country.
Unless specifically asked to name a personal experience, which has never happened to me in a job interview, I always come up with something work oriented. Yours is a great example of your strength for sure but I would wonder if they might be concerned that you are going to work a while and then want to go back home.

If someone asked me that question in an interview, I would be totally stumped. I have no idea what I'd say for a work-related decision. I did move across the country for my first job, but I didn't consider it a difficult decision because it got me into the specialty I wanted right out of school, which might not have happened otherwise. The decision itself was a no-brainer. Living with how the decision affected my personal life was infinitely more difficult.

I've been asked this question in 3 different interviews. I had two totally different answers depending on whether the question was in relation to my personal or professional life.So I bit the bullet and asked if they were speaking of personal or professional. One said personal, one said professional and the third said either one.

Quote from calivianyaIf someone asked me that question in an interview, I would be totally stumped. I have no idea what I'd say for a work-related decision. I did move across the country for my first job, but I didn't consider it a difficult decision because it got me into the specialty I wanted right out of school, which might not have happened otherwise. The decision itself was a no-brainer. Living with how the decision affected my personal life was infinitely more difficult.

Quote from Jules AUnless specifically asked to name a personal experience, which has never happened to me in a job interview, I always come up with something work oriented. Yours is a great example of your strength for sure but I would wonder if they might be concerned that you are going to work a while and then want to go back home.

I had the question in an interview and gave a work related answer. I've moved across the country, uprooting myself from everything I've known, and I also made the decision to keep trying for a child after 4 miscarriages, but I didn't feel those were appropriate examples in the context of a job interview.