This is my first time using promises and mongoose, and I'm trying to save data to global variable for later use

const getUser = async () => {
    let user 
    try {
       user = await clientModel.findOne({username: email})
       consoe.log(user) 
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e)
    }
    return  user
  }

  const filteredUser = getUser().then((value) => {
    return value
  }).catch((e) => console.log(e));

  console.log(filteredUser)

user console log displays content:

{
  _id: new ObjectId("61aa75c64e1526131d98f2a1"),
  username: 'paul@beatles.uk',
  chequing: null,
  saving: '1000022',
  __v: 0
}

but filteredUser keeps displaying Promise { <pending> }