By the nature of some posts and the grammar and spelling involved, some should stick to splitting the land rather than fly
The only way I could ever strike up such conversations is if I asked, or the guy doing the work dropped a comment.

Here is what I think happened:

There was this sweaty kid outside ripping through 4 inches of concrete, when skyhigh decided to walk out in his uniform and say:

Skyhigh: "Hi, you know, I'm a Pilot!"
Other guy: "Oh, really?"
Skyhigh: "Yeah, I've got a long list of hours and all the ratings, but I no longer fly"
Other: "That sucks, what happened?"
Skyhigh: "Oh, there was this kid that came up to the flightdeck and I asked if he had ever seen a grown man naked"
Other: "Yeah, that takes care of it"
Skyhigh: "Do you fly?"
Other: "Oh yeah, I have 4000 hours in Helicopters on Flight Simulator"
Skyhigh: "So why are you doing this?"
Other: "Oh, I've got no clue, I have 9 kids from 10 different women, and gotta make those alimony payments"
Skyhigh: "Wow, that sucks!"
Skyhigh: "Are you guys hiring?"

Never ran into anyone that was either able to recognize me as a pilot, nor have I ever had an conversation with a stranger and found out through it that the other guy was a pilot.