How do I get a job reference for work after I graduate?
In order for any supervisor that you had as a student employee at the College to release information on you regarding your employment you will need to Complete the Information Release and Waiver Agreement.
http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/293020/original/information_release_and_waiver_agreement.pdf
What do linguists do? What are possible career paths?
Sociolinguistics researchers (and/or linguistic anthropologists) may work to preserve dying languages, study the relationships between languages, both extant and extinct, or act as consultants for programs and policies in education or other sectors (e.g., bilingual education, language policy, language rights, etc.). Computational linguists work on projects such as text-to-speech or speech-to-text applications, voice recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, e-learning, etc.