As a developer, I had to hone three skills that allow me to become a hopefully better developer and/or person at the end of the day.

Patience: developers do not see the world in the same way as consumers... the gap sometimes can be amazing.

Comprehension: Learn how to gauge what people are saying and ultimately what they really mean by the net sum of their sentences, not the few words that we dislike. People tend to have verbal diarrhea when it boils down to critiquing an application. They don't have any idea of how much time, sweat, tears, beers, blood, soul went into the application and all of those lines of code. No. They just see that you have a button in a position they just might not like. So what? All things that developers do are basically a work in progress, never finished.

Ability to receive criticism: Just because somebody says one thing, their tone is not always out to hurt, be hurtful, or to misinform you. Simply put, a person that thinks they have a voice might have a valid point or two. But you have to take constructive criticism as well as unsolicited ******** criticism as well. Both might hit you in ways we totally dislike; however you have to look at it as if they are trying to make your product better (ideal) or that they just have an gripe (also ideal). Coding out gripes is what we do.

I understand frustration better than you'd believe. I've been burned out, changed disciplines, changed languages, changed continents (twice), stopped developing, went into art, went back into coding, found a new religion (twice)... and yet I'm still developing.

And I've heard some of the WORSE feedback from users. What that person wrote wasn't bad at all. Unsolicited? Yes. But nowhere near as bad as I've seen.

Good luck with all of your endeavors.