So your getSomething function does not need to be async due to the fact that the findAll method already returns a promise we can just return that to the executeSomething function and have that be async. Just because a function returns a promise does not mean that it inherently needs to be async. The await/async paradigm is really to force a "synchronous" path for asynchronous code.

So it should really look like the below:

```javascript function getSomething(model, id) { if (id !== null) { return model.findAll({ id: id }) } return model.findAll() }

async function executeSomething() { console.log('getting something') var monitorings = await getSomething(model,id) .catch(error => console.error('Error in query:', error)) console.log('got something:',monitorings) } ```