Thanks for the info Justa. My dear hubby has been an MSCE for about 4 years, and it is the best move he has made in his career. But there is a remarkable decrease in job opportunities out there for those credentials, and there really has been a massive influx of paper MSCE's in the last few years. CISCO may be the way to go.
I've often run into the Cisco Academy folks where I take classes and also around 'in the field' since we're all eyeing employment. The thing about Cisco is there's diminshing jobs, even more than with MS. The internet has mostly been built-out in America and future buildouts will likely go at a much slower pace then what was seen in '96-2000. So for the future the existing CCNAs and CCNEs will likely be able to handle the load. There's also the wireless factor which reduces network wiring loads so there may even be a reduction in Cisco work if enough networks go wireless. I can't imagine cable going unutilized though.
If your husband has an MCSE job he should stick with his MCSE job. If anything, he should work on keeping his MS administrator skills current by working towards an MCSA.
In the end I'd advise he get away from MS networking and go to Unix/Linux. I think that within 10 yr.s MS-certified network administrators won't reside onsite @ $60K/yr. but via their keyboards in Calcutta @ $10/day. MS will of course charge something like $3.95/min. for 'Remote Administration Services'. This ability is already built into NT5 (2000/XP) and is likewise planned for .NET Enterprise Servers. When that happens likely the only techs needed onsite will be a couple of A+ hardware monkeys to service the .Net End User's equipment. With .Net MS is going to a closed network -like AOL. They won't need administrators onsite.