The [`job_id`](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/blob/ffe5869aa7c31bd82483e4d52adacbf83cf0fd69/gcloud/bigquery/job.py#L150-L156) property uses the `_properties` returned from the server. It seems the original intent was a `uuid.uuid4()` on instance creation.