The bucks are in infrastructure at the moment, so the Cisco certs are a good bet. MCSEs are a dime a dozen (I know, I are one) and any Micro$oft cert under that is probably not much of a resume entry right now. Novell certification is more remunerative in the middle of the country than on the coasts (I know, I are a CNE too).
The Cisco certs, at least CCNA and up, tend to be pricey, but then they're all getting that way these days. The way the tests are structured it's getting difficult to get a certification without some sort of home-company-approved formal courses, many of which have de-emphasized real-world dope in favor of how-to-pass-the-tests approaches. Caveat emptor.
Wish you the best. You may be my boss someday.
I've had a CCNA for two years and it hasnt done me squat. my MCSE and Solaris were worth much more in landing a job.