diff --git a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
index 35a47f3..df83117 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
@@ -15,27 +15,34 @@ export queues
 ##
 
 type
+  JobId* = uint ## job id, should match `future.id()`
+
   JobQueue*[T] = ref object
-    queue*: SignalQueue[(uint, T)]
-    futures*: Table[uint, Future[T]]
+    queue*: SignalQueue[(JobId, T)]
+    futures*: Table[JobId, Future[T]]
     taskpool*: Taskpool
     running*: bool
 
+  JobResult*[T] = object
+    id*: JobId
+    queue*: SignalQueue[(JobId, T)]
+
 proc processJobs*(jobs: JobQueue) {.async.} =
   while jobs.running:
     echo "jobs running..."
-    let res = get await jobs.queue.wait()
+    let res = await(jobs.queue.wait()).get()
     echo "jobs result: ", res.repr
     echo "jobs futes: ", jobs.futures.unsafeAddr.pointer.repr, " => ", jobs.futures.keys().toSeq()
     let (id, ret) = res
     let fut = jobs.futures[id]
     fut.complete(ret)
 
-proc createFuture*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T], name: static string): (uint, Future[T]) =
+proc createFuture*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T], name: static string): (JobResult[T], Future[T]) =
   let fut = newFuture[T](name)
-  jobs.futures[fut.id()] = fut
+  let id = JobId fut.id()
+  jobs.futures[id] = fut
   echo "jobs added: ", jobs.futures.unsafeAddr.pointer.repr, " => ", jobs.futures.keys().toSeq()
-  return (fut.id(), fut, )
+  return (JobResult[T](id: id, queue: jobs.queue), fut, )
 
 proc newJobQueue*[T](maxItems: int = 0, taskpool: Taskpool = Taskpool.new()): JobQueue[T] {.raises: [ApatheiaSignalErr].} =
   result = JobQueue[T](queue: newSignalQueue[(uint, T)](maxItems), taskpool: taskpool, running: true)
@@ -45,17 +52,15 @@ macro submitMacro*(tp: untyped, jobs: untyped, exp: untyped): untyped =
   ## modifies the call expression to include the job queue and 
   ## the job id parameters
 
+  let jobRes = genSym(nskLet, "jobRes")
   let futName = genSym(nskLet, "fut")
-  let idName = genSym(nskLet, "id")
   let nm = newLit(repr(exp))
-  let queueExpr = quote do: `jobs`.queue
   var fncall = nnkCall.newTree(exp[0])
-  fncall.add(queueExpr)
-  fncall.add(idName)
+  fncall.add(jobRes)
   for p in exp[1..^1]: fncall.add(p)
 
   result = quote do:
-    let (`idName`, `futName`) = createFuture(`jobs`, `nm`)
+    let (`jobRes`, `futName`) = createFuture(`jobs`, `nm`)
     `jobs`.taskpool.spawn(`fncall`)
     `futName`
   
diff --git a/tests/tjobs.nim b/tests/tjobs.nim
index 16572f9..8888d8e 100644
--- a/tests/tjobs.nim
+++ b/tests/tjobs.nim
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ proc addNumsRaw(a, b: float): float =
   echo "adding: ", a, " + ", b
   return a + b
 
-proc addNums(queue: SignalQueue[(uint, float)], id: uint, a, b: float) =
+proc addNums(jobResult: JobResult[float], a, b: float) =
   let res = addNumsRaw(a, b)
-  discard queue.send((id, res,))
+  discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
 
 suite "async tests":