You presumably don't run an overall trade deficit. You have a positive balance of trade with your employer, who pays you money for your services. That is probab

You presumably don't run an overall trade deficit. You have a positive balance of trade with your employer, who pays you money for your services. That is probably slightly higher than the total trade deficit you have with your purchases. You may even have saved up enough that you could retire, and run a trade deficit for the rest of your life. Which would be fine, except that countries don't retire. They need to more or less balance their net trades, over a period of decades if not every year.