The same. I never recieved any tangible employment benefit from my CCNA, Network+ or A+ certs. The CCNA was the only one that even approached any actual value (and I still use the skills from it some 20ish years later).
I did get very real benefit from the MS cluster with fiber channel storage that I rigged together in the basement. That got me a very lucrative job working with big IT and financial companies everyone has heard of. No certs involved with that though, just good old figuring shit out and being able to prove it. Beats book learning every day of the week.
