异步功能与等待

I'm coming from a PHP background and I'm trying to learn NodeJS.

I know that everything in Node is async but I've found that i've been using the async / await combo quite a lot in my code and I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something stupid.

The reason for it is that I have a lot of situations where I need the result of something before continuing (for example for a small ajax request). This small ajax request has no other purpose other than to do the set of things that I want it to and in the order that I specify so even if I do things the "async way" and write it using a callback i'm still having to wait for things to finish in the right order.

Right now whenever I find myself in this situation I just use await to wait for the result:

ie:

var result = await this.doSomething(data);

Opposed to using a callback

this.doSomething(data, function(callback) {
  // code
  callback();
});

To me the first example looks cleaner than the second one which is why I've been opting for that. But I'm worried that I might be missing something fundamental here. But in a situation where there is nothing else to process below the async call and the only way for things to progress is for it to follow a syncronous style, is there anything wrong with using the first style over the second?