The workhorse is employed for heavy labour and is subjected to it for a long period. When someone refers to you as a workhorse, it means you perform a lot of hard or dull labour, and you are paid pennies for it. The duty of a workhorse is to make money for others at the expense of his health, marriage, and family. The workhorse will harvest the fruits but will not get to enjoy it. And when the workhorse gets hurt, he is forced to recover quickly because he fears losing his position to another workhorse. The workhorse does not have a life of his own, rather, his job is his life, and if you take that away from him he will be the most perplexed animal on the planet because his relevance has been taken away from him. When the workhorse begins to age, and his output decreases, he is replaced by a younger more energetic workhorse fresh from Workhorse University (a place where every workhorse is certified, this qualifies them to search for a field to plough). After the workhorse is replaced, life continues normally for the master and his field, but not so for the workhorse that is now wounded, battered, old, poverty-stricken, and with little to show for all his work and efforts over the years. Ironically, once he retires, death comes faster because his job was what kept him alive. The narrative of the workhorse is a sad one that must be told to all, young and old alike. Every parent must tell their children about the tragic ending of the workhorse who grew the fields but had no share in it.