diff --git a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
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+import ./queues
+
+import taskpools
+
+export queues
+
+type
+  JobQueue*[T] = object
+    queue*: SignalQueue[T]
+    taskpool*: Taskpool
+
+proc newJobQueue*[T](maxItems: int = 0, taskpool: Taskpool = Taskpool.new()): JobQueue[T] {.raises: [ApatheiaSignalErr].} =
+  JobQueue[T](queue: newSignalQueue[T](maxItems), taskpool: taskpool)
+
+template awaitSpawn*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T], exp: untyped): T =
+  jobs.taskpool.spawn(exp)
+  await wait(jobs.queue)
diff --git a/tests/tjobs.nim b/tests/tjobs.nim
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+import std/os
+
+import chronos
+import chronos/threadsync
+import chronos/unittest2/asynctests
+import taskpools
+
+import apatheia/queues
+import apatheia/jobs
+
+## todo: setup basic async + threadsignal + taskpools example here
+## 
+
+proc addNums(a, b: float): float =
+  os.sleep(500)
+  echo "adding: ", a, " + ", b
+  return a + b
+
+proc addNums(queue: SignalQueue[float], a, b: float) =
+  let res = addNums(a, b)
+  discard queue.send(res)
+
+suite "async tests":
+
+  # var tp = Taskpool.new(num_threads = 2) # Default to the number of hardware threads.
+  # var queue = newSignalQueue[float]()
+  var jobs = newJobQueue[float]()
+
+  asyncTest "test":
+
+    echo "\nstart"
+    let res = jobs.awaitSpawn addNums(jobs.queue, 1.0, 2.0)
+
+    # await sleepAsync(100.milliseconds)
+    echo "result: ", res.repr
+
+    # echo "\nRES: ", args.value
+
+    check true
+