Comment It is the degree that counts! (Score 2, Insightful) 733
I also am a recent grad (been out 2 years) and every place that I have noticed doesn't truly care about what your degree is in just as long as you have a degree. I work in the banking industry and we have archieologist majors that work here. So your degree will always get you somewhere.
As far as software developing being dead, its far from it. Software is just ready for the next generation of what software can do and evolve to something even more great.
Someone once said a long time ago that everything that could ever been invented has already been invented. That was before computers were even thought of.