errand boy vs hireling

errand boy

noun
  • Someone in a responsible position who performs relatively menial tasks for a senior manager. 

  • A male employed to run errands. 

hireling

noun
  • An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. 

  • Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. 

  • A horse for hire. 

How often have the words errand boy and hireling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )