Are hydrogeologist/numerical modelers alone by nature?

This can also be a title for this article: Are hydrogeologist/numerical modelers fundamentally alone? We can define "loneliness" in many different ways that range into different stages of human behavior. As we are not in a discussion of what Kant could have defined loneliness, let's define it in a practical way that you are alone as not you are not with someone. This is kind of a definition like: you are because you are not what you aren't.

Over the course of the past 20 years I have experienced, I have perceived, and I have even diagnosed some type of behavior in numerical modelers. Even though my background is not on behavioral science or cognitive processes, I think that my relation to numerical methods lets me analyze and make regressions on people's experiences and usage of numerical models.

Field hydrogeologists shouldn't be identified with this article and we can´t exclude the term "hydrogeologist" in the title because numerical modelers are hydrogeologists in the end, even though we are not familiar with the field as we might want or as might need. 

Let's explore the atmosphere and ecosystem of numerical modelers to understand the source of loneliness. From our academic experience just a percentage of students that take courses on groundwater modeling actually develop a whole and proficient career on the field because numerical modelers are not developed or trained, they are born or they are produced by spontaneous combustion of the gray matter. 

It is said that the Dalai Lama or the monks rule who is going to be the successor by consulting oracles, where the next Dalai Lama had no idea of his destiny. Lets say that numerical modelers are potential Dalai Lamas but no one will actually look for them.

The natural interest for numerical methods, a master thesis or just the development of one tutorial (like the ones we have on Youtube) could make a start on the field but unfortunately the environment mostly is adverse on reaching the whole potential for the numerical modelers.

We would like to separate in this article the amount of effort amount a beginner groundwater modeler gives to learn numerical tools and read documentation; this article mostly discusses the environment of the numerical apprentice.

As numerical methods are developed by humans there is no limitation on human nature to learn any kind of open source software, since it is open on everything: code, documentation, examples and tutorials. But the fact that it is open and available doesn't mean that anyone will learn because the learning process is a process of knowledge growing and for anyone related with agriculture the growing process on plants is related to sun, irrigation, fertilization, disease control and we can draw parallels to groundwater modeling learning.

We can't expect that someone trains us in the whole field of numerical modeling, or that we have someone that solves all our non convergences or related problems on our models, but at least we need someone to "talk to" efficiently. We can talk to relatives about our progress or our troubles with models and we could imagine that we are being heard but with time these talks will become useless since no feedback or critical thoughts can come and you would end up storing all your thoughts for your own, and that is the worst scenario.

After a big fire or accidents, firefighters are encouraged to talk about their impressions of the disaster and their personal feelings in a process called "debriefing" that is intended to relieve stress. Numerical modelers who often work alone need to talk about their advances and mostly about their difficulties with pairs as a way to dissipate their minds, lower their revolutions and change the perspective about what can be a solution for a problem or what is the problem itself.