diff --git a/DiscordBot.py b/DiscordBot.py
index a3ab68a..673b795 100644
--- a/DiscordBot.py
+++ b/DiscordBot.py
@@ -3,22 +3,28 @@
 import requests
 import base64
 import json
+from discord.ext import commands
 from JobScrapingService import JobScrapingService #used to import the job scraping class from the job scrape py
 # create a .env file with the token name; find a way to make a private doc on github since the bot will not be run locally
 
 posting = JobScrapingService
-client = discord.Client() #connection to discord
 
-@client.event #register event: ready for use
-async def on_ready():
-    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))
+load_dotenv()
 
-@client.event #register event: recieve message and execute
-async def on_message(message):
-    if message.author == client.user:
-        return
+TOKEN = os.getenv('DISCORD_TOKEN')
+bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')
 
-    if message.content.startswith('$hello'): #needs to be some sort of trigger; not sure what it should be or how to enable it
-        await message.channel.send(posting) #posting needs to be formattd; not sure how to do that...
+@bot.command(name='jobs') #command for job posting, preceded with ! 
+async def jobPostings(ctx):
+        embed = discord.Embed(
+            title = "", #main title of the bot or posting type (job apps, incoming internships, etc)
+                #url = "" will make this optional, but we can attach a URL to the title if we want
+                description = "Looking for your next job? Take a look a these new postings!", #subheading for the posting
+                color = discord.Color.blue())
+        embed.set_field(name="****", value="", url="", inline=False) 
+            #add the posting name in bold letters, value will be the company name, url will be the link to apply
+            #we can add as many of these as we want; working on finding a way to do this for as many posting as we need; will try to make a loop if possible
+    embed.set_footer(text="") #add text to the footer; maybe a link to a job site or some other job finding resource   
+    await ctx.send(embed=embed)
 
-client.run(os.getenv('TOKEN')) #runs the bot with the login token from the .env file
+bot.run(TOKEN) #runs the bot with the login token from the .env file; need to find a way to link it..