Generally the job of paid handyman is low status, a semi-skilled labor job. It's a less prestigious occupation than a specialist such as a plumber, electrician, or carpenter.
Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film in 1983.
A Shropshire Lad was published in 1896, and so has nothing to do with the First World War. Internal evidence in the `war poems' in Last Poems (1922) also suggests that they are not about that conflict, the more so as Housman's own introduction dates most of them to between 1895 and 1910.. Almost certainly, yes, if by that you mean that he was capable of being in love with men. The love of his life seems to have been a male friend of his from Oxford, Moses Jackson, who was not a homosexual and may not even have been aware of this crush of Housman's.