Having the right people makes all the difference in a successful team. If you have been working to create a Community Paramedic team, you have realized it takes many different people and specialties to be successful. You start with a motivated medical director and a few highly motivated community paramedics but, quickly realize you need more help. You need to add more community Paramedics to your team. How do you choose those community paramedics? Will the most senior paramedic be the easiest choice? Should I hire a brand-new paramedic, so I am able to shape and mold them to fit community paramedicine? How do you find the same motivation in new community paramedics that you stared with? New community paramedics soon find out that this is not the “easy” job they were looking for. Often, they join the team looking for better hours or a less physically demanding job. They quickly find that the demands of a community paramedic can be even more stressful than they expected.