Nodejs Mongoose function won't execute promise

I have a node.js script in which I'm trying to do something as simple as execute a Mongoose query and then read the response in the promise .then

The problem is no matter what I try, the .then never seems to happen. What am I doing wrong?

Here is my node file code:

const WorkOrder = require('../models/WorkOrder');

let promise = WorkOrder.findOne({}).exec();

promise.then(result => {
  console.log('result', result);
);

When I do a console.log(WorkOrder.findOne({}).exec()) I get:

Promise {
  emitter:
   EventEmitter {
     domain: null,
     _events: {},
     _eventsCount: 0,
     _maxListeners: undefined },
  emitted: {},
  ended: false }

This a similar function is used in another part of the app (which uses redux) that has way more going on, this is just a super boiled down version just to see if I can query my database and then look at the result.

What is going on here?

via Stevie Star