Generation Miss the point?

I just passed by an article in Time magazine, called "The Broken Hopes of a Generation," in which we were conceptualised (maybe tentatively) as "generation disappointment" : Same theme, different day, new perspective but always similar things to say: crises lead to less jobs, missed or no opportunities, and what we once thought we had or wanted might never be or was never meant to ever become...and we had such high hopes that for our generation, things would be so much better and so much brighter.

Aren't they? Don't we have so much more? Haven't we come so far? If we forget about "the crisis" and we look outside "that box" isn't there a different story or actually a lot of stories that we can tell about the world and what is going on for and around our generation; And, shouldn't we be the ones who are embracing, confronting and really taking hold of all of these new, amazing potentialities and not wallowing in our own self-pity?

I want to be a professor, but right now, maybe it's not the right time to get funding in the academic institutional environment; and, that doesn't mean that I can't learn and teach others; it also doesn't mean that I have to feel disappointed when confronted with other possibilities that never crossed my mind as ideal(s or "reals") before. In fact, we're living longer today than ever before, so why not take this as a sign that we simply have more time to try new things- and more of them- so there's no rush to a single "ideal" goal, and there's no need to hurry or worry! Such futile quests leave us running in circles of distress and then nobody will get anywhere, and we will be the generation of unproductivity at the most- to say the least!