Within any prepper group, each member of the group must trust each other member enough to put their life if the others hands without hesitation or question.
If you can’t do that, your group will not work.
That's why I'm designing the perfect team: I'll have (1) a community organizer, (2) a professor of Gay Studies, (3) a grad student in African American Studies (alternatively, Hispanic Studies), (4) an undergraduate in fashion design, (5) a journalist with an MA in journalism and more than a decade of experience in the mainstream media, (6) a senior advertising executive, (7) an aspiring writer with a BA in English Literature, (8) TBD, (9) TBD, and (10) myself. I haven't decided the key career skills for my #8 and #9, but I know they will not include engineers, doctors/nurses, farmers, or any people who get their hands greasy or dirty. It should be paradise as imagined by ObamaVoters.
Note: One could certainly find people in some of the above careers who have practical skills in a SHTF world, but I'm looking for people who can help me to maintain the specialties that made America what it is becoming today. We will be a library to preserve all the Marxist thought and hyphenated-studies publications that allowed America to transition into a country that likes having someone with absolutely no qualifications in charge. What could go wrong?